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amfsn | 6 years ago

People generally don't care about LE reading what they say, so no. People used whatsapp before e2e and will keep using it after e2e.

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merpnderp|6 years ago

Maybe your "people" are cool with LE reading their salty messages to significant others, or hot take political commentary, but all the "people" I know expect privacy as good responsible citizens should.

andyjh|6 years ago

One might reasonably assume the "bad guys" they're trying to catch would go elsewhere though, if they have any sense. So then you're just left with innocent people to spy on.

coldtea|6 years ago

>So then you're just left with innocent people to spy on.

Those are who they want to spy on anyway.

For serious criminals, terrorists etc they have other tools, banning commercial encryption wont help with those...

amfsn|6 years ago

You'd be surprised to learn how fucking stupid most bad guys are.