• Pedo hunter
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    19 days ago

    The year is 1994 and Vint Cerf and Rob Kahn have just been arrestedTheir invention (TCP/IP) is being used for drug dealers to communicate with each other and they were unwilling to install a back door

    The equivalent version of this just happened with Telegram

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
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      18 days ago

      Nah it’s the equivalent of an ISP refusing to follow a surveillance court order.

      You can engineer things such that doing that is impossible, and it’s perfectly legal to do so. It’s also not what telegram is doing.