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Poul-Henning Kamp · 2w
My final BikeShed column for ACM Queue. Please make my predictions come out wrong. https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3818307
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@nprofile1q... This is the first time I find myself rooting for you to be wrong. The future seems to suck. I don't like it.

I disagree on a visceral level that strong privacy guarantees is "crime-enabling". At the very least it's a double edged sword, but I'll refrain from getting on that soapbox for fear of being labeled a "privacy advocacy tech bro". It's only the final two words that I take offence to, obviously.
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Poul-Henning Kamp · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq29v4vvtw2e50x87p7c6p2w05fgsmt8207qg6q54gsvmxkwpcmqsq0vwjlp I think everybody is "for privacy", but the point is that encryption offers "absolute privacy" and that is fundamentally incompatible with a society of laws and justice, because crimes...