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Cassie Heart
@cassie
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk/ This is why you have to make it impossible, not a feature out of the good graces of a company. If Quilibrium receives an order to do this, we couldn't fulfill it.
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hmm the article describes a government order that compels Apple to introduce a backdoor to make all “fully encrypted material” viewable to the UK government seems like something that’s impossible to protect against with software
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How do you compel a decentralized protocol that can communicate over too many mediums to censor?
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@ashoat.eth
I’d guess that the techniques used to shut down Tornado Cash, techniques used to bring Pavel Durov into compliance, etc. are generalizable against pretty much any software project I’ll admit we’ve never seen it tried on a blockchain project with massive scale/traction. purely hypothetical, but I wonder what would happen if the Feds issued arrest warrants on Vitalik, all major ETH devs, all large node operators, etc. probably still couldn’t fully take down Ethereum, at least not without more governments onboard but for Q… if the British government extradited you for not complying with the same order they gave Apple, what would happen to the project?
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