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  • the real question is: when and in what form will it be re-proposed next?
    by vb-8448
  • Comparing electronic chats to former communication methods... Would people have objected to the government scanning all of their physical postal letters for keywords that might suggest something illegal? Don't they need some legal ground to do this in advance of the act?

    Why are chats different?

    by beezlewax
  • I really don’t think this has anything to do with pressure from the 10% of the public that can afford to care about this.

    Politicians, and more importantly influential people, also rely on the same tech as we do and they have infinitely more to lose if their communications leak.

    by fguerraz
  • I don’t get how this debate keeps cropping up. Is there not some career disincentive/consequence where if you try to push Encryption back doors, you get demolished in your re-election
    by gnarlouse
  • Who wants this?

    Who is driving it?

    Who wants this so much that they have gone to the massive expense and effort?

    Whoever it is - they know thet defeat is only temporary, and if they keep bringing it back from the dead, eventually it will succeed.

    by wewewedxfgdf
  • The first thing to check in new versions of the proposal is whether they include an exception for the government, as they always do. If the proposers think the scanning is so safe, why don't they want the government to use it too? As soon as it says the government is exempted, you know that the rest can be tossed in the trash without much further examination.
    by throwaway81523
  • Can't wait for it to be reintroduced as "Protecting Children and Countering Terrorism Act" in 26/27
    by r_lee
  • Great news. Now maybe we can go on the offense for once. Work to enable constitutional protections against this sort of thing, and develop systems that can work around it if and when this comes back again.

    There are places in the world today where only sneakernet communication has any semblance of privacy, so we need non-specialist tools that can provide privacy and secrecy regardless of local conditions. (I’d love to see more communication tools that don’t assume an always-on connection, or low latency, or other first world conditions.)

    by iamnothere

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