[voxic11]

You can make it technologically impossible, but they can also come and arrest you just for using such technology. So its not really a technical problem, its a social/political one.

[jMyles]

Sure, but then they need to send a physical person, which is expensive and impossible to scale. Making it extremely expensive is probably good enough.

(Feels like we have this same discussion over and over on HN.)

[gmueckl]

I don't understand this take. There is no real way in which a private person can make law enforcement "more expensive". The government can always find means as long as it is supported by a sufficiently big fraction of its people.

[unethical_ban]

It needs to be done on both fronts.

Privacy-conscious apps and communications tools need to be developed, and we need to build the consensus that privacy is important.

edit: Anyone know why Briar doesn't have the feature for known contacts to be a "courier" for other contacts?

Background: Briar is the encrypted messaging app that works over tor, local wifi and bluetooth. If Alice sends a message to Charles but she isn't connected, the app will hold it until it detects Alice and Charles are in proximity.

My desired feature: If Bob is a verified contact with both Alice and Charles, Briar should be able to hand the message from Alice to Bob, and then deliver it to Charles.