jmilosze

Agree. It's a prime example of a chart crime.

It's already perfectly feasible to do. Meta/Apple etc. can just deploy a client that decrypts the message, scans it, re-encrypts (with a different key) and sends it to their storage where they can store it forever and decrypt if needed. This way they could even have different clients in different regions still being compatible. It's just that it would suck and would not be secure any more.

Well of course it is calling C. The point of this argument is that you don't have to go all in and write your code in C to get good performance. You can just write good Python and get almost as fast code as C that will take you 5 times less time to develop.