To theregister - please do an article on this:
https://tox.chat/ - take a look (I have nothing to do with this, it isn't a plug)
After thinking I would build something like this myself (just to prove a political point), I googled and eventually found this mainly thanks to this excellent article: https://ar.al/notes/decrypting-amber-rudd/.
Anyway, as far as I can tell, this makes the entire argument moot. What is the point of breaking e2e encryption on whatsapp etc, when there is something that is fully encrypted, decentralised and open-source available for anyone to use from any platform.
Yes, it's still not quite as easy to use as whatsapp, but what we have here is something that the government could do nothing about but "ban" it's use. And I'm not sure how you would police that given they'd have to go after people individually.
Does the existence of technology like this not make the entire argument moot?
As far as I can tell, people are trying to fight the arguments of the government on their playing field and losing thanks to the poor general knowledge of the public and the mainstream media on this subject. Let's try being persuasive to the general public rather than being an echo chamber where we all agree with each other and don't persuade anyone else!
Stop fighting based on logical reasons and breaking down their dumb arguments & publicise this (and related technologies) and point out that the argument was lost a long time ago by the government (before they even started arguing their case). Cat is out of bag etc.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
