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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We've since received advice to not do that. So instead, I'll just keep pushing forward to make such orders impossible to fulfill were we ever to receive one.

are you still posting those one things monthly or whatever

How do you compel a decentralized protocol that can communicate over too many mediums to censor?

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

This is why you have to also assume everything is already compromised because this is just what came out in the press. Imagine what’s been there for decades and developed overtime

Will be interesting to see how this plays out

encryption that relies on promises is just security theater. cryptographic guarantees > policy guarantees. how are other projects thinking about building these impossible-to-break systems?