• SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    Continuing the analogy, government agencies can absolutely eavesdrop on in-person conversations unless you expend significant resources to prevent it. This is exactly what I believe will happen - organized crime will develop alternate methods the government can’t access while these backdoors are used to monitor less advanced criminals and normal people.

    • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      Spending significant resources to prevent it is exactly what encryption is. What the government wants is to completely eliminate online private communication. Continuing with the analogy: you want telescreens.

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        2 days ago

        Huh? I don’t think you understand my comment. Except for the last line, you’re just further agreeing with me and I’m already agreeing with you.

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                Telling someone who says government access will be used to spy on citizens but will be useless for combating serious crime that they want telescreens, a fictitious device used for government spying, doesn’t make any sense. Either you don’t know what a telescreen is, you have poor reading comprehension, or you’re a fairly clever troll. Maybe some of all the above.

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                  I’m telling someone who says that a want for uncompromising privacy is a US thing that it’s not, and that these compromises they speak of would be akin to telescreens if applied to a non-digital situation.

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                    I’m telling someone who says that a want for uncompromising privacy is a US thing that it’s not

                    But their comment doesn’t say or suggest that.

                    and that these compromises they speak of would be akin to telescreens if applied to a non-digital situation.

                    And they don’t say anything about the compromises except that they’d be used for spying on citizenry.

                    This isn’t my fight, I saw you were confused and thought I’d help. My mistake, you really are one of those double down or die types.

              • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                2 days ago

                So you misread my comment but you’re one of those types who can’t admit when they’re wrong. I’d say it’s our little secret but I see someone else pointed it out too.

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                  2 days ago

                  Nope. You’re the one refusing to admit being wrong.

                  Edit: I was totally in the wrong here. Someone else just pointed out you’re not the original commenter.