The impossibility of banning encrypted communication? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Forgive me if this is an obvious stupid question, but with all this talk (again) about the EU trying to force chat platforms to check the content of its messages, I can help but think: how are they ever going to prevent me and my friend from sharing public keys and using them to encrypt our messages to each other? In other words: how are they ever going to be able to ban encryption?

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 29 points 3 days ago

They can't stop you. But they can criminalize your behavior.

It becomes yet another tool in the toolbox, if you become a person of interest, the tool comes out and they start hitting you with it.

The fact that it's impossible to implement isn't important.

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