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Re:TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court by JumpCrisscross on Friday December 06, 2024 @11:35AM (#42341290)
> you can't get rid of hacking through a bit of legislature

We can make it harder. Switch our telecoms to E2E by default.

We’ve shown the current set-up can be exploited by adversaries. It’s not a huge leap given the prevalence of encrypted messaging apps. And you can market it as a finger to the deep state on one side and a limit on the executive to the other.

Re:TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court by daniel_reetz on Friday December 06, 2024 @11:50AM (#42341440)
E2E doesn't fix the government mandated backdoors, which were implicated in this attack. Check out the last line of this article:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/04/politics/us-telecom-providers...

Re:TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court by JumpCrisscross on Friday December 06, 2024 @12:01PM (#42341570)
> E2E doesn't fix the government mandated backdoors, which were implicated in this attack

Of course it does. It removes them. This problem can be solved with a bit of legislation.

Re:TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court by rangestransform on Friday December 06, 2024 @12:33PM (#42341959)
We should just make the three letter agencies go dark then, and hopefully jobless too
Re:TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court by JumpCrisscross on Friday December 06, 2024 @12:51PM (#42342169)
> just make the three letter agencies go dark then, and hopefully jobless too

Good. Red teaming. This is exactly what I’d say, too, if I wanted to tank a federal E2E bill. It splits the national security bloc by unnecessarily vilifying the IC, the one group that doesn’t traditionally bother with the lawful part of lawful intercept.