Oddbean

if even security and intelligence agencies raise caution with your drastic plans for monitoring and control over communication, maybe it's a "are we the bad guys" moment… i dunno… nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzphylegxrz89mlxyxuyckf3j8t73a3zcxgkkew5pwwyp27tdukrgfqqsqgzqtpv64gc3vf577ns89sv3andrzqerfkn7zhqa93s4gegunw3csnxw74

I am actually shocked people come up with these kind of measures. How can you ever justify going through millions or maybe billions of photos and text messages to find a single occurrence of a bad actor while this is as easily circumvented as installing the next e2e encrypted app, or, if it's on OS level, another device that let's you bypass these measures entirely. The encryption cat has been out of the bag for decades so we should really stop trying to capture it on the endpoints. If it was possible they would monopolize encryption just like they already monopolize violence.

it's emotional race-to-the-bottom thinking that became popular around 9/11 with terrorism, "CSAM is infinitely bad so it warrants infinitely bad measures" the more idealistic governance where measures are tested against other, what you would say, important cornerstones of civilization, like civil liberties, are long gone. Only this absolute (questionable) measure of safety matters and even bringing up privacy, freedom of speech and movement, or even whether a measure would really be effective, is ever more of a taboo "we have to do something!!! don't get in the way!!!"