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0 pointsetherael3y ago0 comments

While you're absolutely right that this is their attitude, what they will do, etc. The laws of mathematics steadfastly remain consistent despite your latlon and it doesn't matter what random idiot politician thinks about it.

This too will remain constant.

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aahortwwy3y ago

That doesn't really matter.

The point Turnbull was making is something along these lines: https://xkcd.com/538/

No, they can't change the laws of mathematics to make all encryption have a government backdoor. They don't have to, though. They can just legislate to make use of non-backdoored encryption criminal. And if they want to make generating random streams of bytes a crime they can probably do that too.

It's not idiotic, it's authoritarian.

etheraelOP3y ago

Sure, they can make thinking of a pink elephant criminal, too. That doesn't mean it will actually be effective.

aahortwwy3y ago

You don't think so? I worry that it will be very effective, that it will be passively accepted by the public, and that we will see widespread injustice as a result.

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0 pointsetherael3y ago0 comments

This too will remain constant.

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aahortwwy3y ago

That doesn't really matter.

The point Turnbull was making is something along these lines: https://xkcd.com/538/

It's not idiotic, it's authoritarian.

etheraelOP3y ago

Sure, they can make thinking of a pink elephant criminal, too. That doesn't mean it will actually be effective.

aahortwwy3y ago

You don't think so? I worry that it will be very effective, that it will be passively accepted by the public, and that we will see widespread injustice as a result.

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