Post AUzlWLXfO2rRcajgGW by davidnewman@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AUzh7X6YrNB0QVyClU by matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange
       2023-04-25T00:44:39Z
       
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       It is remarkable to think that only in the past 15-20 years have we moved most of our private communications to digital channels with centralized storage & the processing power to perform bulk scanning. Coincidentally that’s nearly as long as encrypted messaging has been around.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUzlV2oXWzEHFT0Vou by matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange
       2023-04-25T00:49:50Z
       
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       Many folks in law enforcement and politics seem genuinely confused about the popularity of end-to-end encrypted messaging, like we all just decided to become anarchists or something. That’s not at all the dynamic we’re seeing here. The entire basis of our communications infrastructure shifted in a direction that’s inimical to privacy; encryption is the obvious solution.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUzlV3iYAk243BDF7g by matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange
       2023-04-25T00:52:01Z
       
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       If you had the most cynical possible view of humanity and its governments, you’d expect government agencies to be making a *huge* push to end encryption right now; or at least adorn it with mass-scanning infrastructure. And sure enough, that’s exactly what we’re seeing all around the world. https://www.globalencryption.org/2023/04/statement-on-eu-us-cooperation-against-encryption/
       
 (DIR) Post #AUzlV4Ziz2ZCi65i0O by matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange
       2023-04-25T01:14:07Z
       
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       Anyway one of the things I’m desperate to convey to people is that this is *not* just a continuation of the same fight we’ve been having for decades. The circumstances have entirely changed, in a way that can never change back. The folks leading this charge know that.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUzlWLXfO2rRcajgGW by davidnewman@mastodon.social
       2023-04-25T00:51:55Z
       
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       @matthew_d_green Do you mean digital encrypted messaging? David Kahn’s “The Code-Breakers” starts nearly 4,000 years ago…
       
 (DIR) Post #AUzlWM4HQmwtFjzj6G by matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange
       2023-04-25T00:54:22Z
       
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       @davidnewman For most of the past 4,000 years private messaging meant “having a conversation in a private place.” Widespread availability of postal services only dates to the 1600s and even then it was a luxury for the rich.