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Tony D’Addeo
@deodad
what leads you to believe that end to end encrypted communication is a net good for the world? esp in liberal democratic countries where the governments are at least in theory accountable to the people are the costs of letting malevolent actors coordinate worth the benefits? what exactly are those benefits that justify something like kiddie porn being easy to distribute at scale? or are the alleged liberal democracies currently in power more of a fiction than reality? or is it more that someday a less liberal less democratic regime will come into power? steel man positions only
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@m-j-r
the bottom line - there is no way to practically implement coercion-resistance without forms of encryption (*and stenography*). we don't have to go all the way back to the caesar cipher, but the entire point of the byzantine general's problem is that unseizable messengers don't exist. even radio broadcasts (e.g. Eli Cohen) are "seized". this can be abused in blackballing, but cryptographic methods already exist to address collusion (and it is critical). wrt malevolence * distribution, this is paradox of positive & negative rights, where pushing one to a threshold unilaterally diminishes the other. humans are irrational, violent, and intelligent; states can more or less be affected by feuds, wars, frauds, etc. wrt alleged liberal democracies, yes. always was oligopoly of violence, always was domestic espionage. ultimately a question of sending >>> receiving attrition & casualties. ultimately a question of cultural capital to dictate a moral hazard; gray market law enforcement gets $, black gets $$$
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