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1. Matthew Green (matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 11:56:57 JST Matthew Green

   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.

   • Matthew Green (matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 11:56:55 JST Matthew Green

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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/

   • Matthew Green (matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 11:56:56 JST Matthew Green

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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.

     I2P repeated this.