There are upsides to it, like me spending considerably less time on the random internet surfing because my annoyance overshadows my dopamine kick.

There are so many issues with “think about children”. If in the name of safety of children someone suggests Ukraine should maybe consider surrendering you give these children away to a country that believes outcome of Beslan school siege was a success. Also if Ukraine won’t be using cluster munnitions Russia will still use them so if there are going to be de-mining efforts anyway…

That’s true but that’s the problem with technology where law is involved is always the same, law is made by people and their opinions, gestation limit is just secondary thing here really and I wasn’t interested in discussing that (I’m strongly pro-choice but as someone said… “We live in a society”).

Facebook will also open and hand out your private messages in many other cases, I remember this case about drugs and whatnot: https://www.govtech.com/public-safety/warrant-for-encrypted-facebook-messages-causes-privacy-worry.html but I don’t know how this specific case ended.

What is worth to note is at the start they give the justification as fight against cartels, exploiters and terrorists but if that is their concern the law should be pointing out these 3 specific things and not used to catch teenagers smoking weed. And also how words like “encryption” and “security” and “private” turn out to be nothing more than marketing buzzwords.

Funny how abuse of power by the state makes normal people move to the apps used by “shaddy people” for extra privacy only to get in fact the normal level of privacy a normal person would expect to get.

I think we should first change the law and using end-to-end encryption is only stopgap measure.

In Poland Pegasus was simply used by ruling party to hack phones of the people they don’t like: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/polish-mayor-targeted-by-pegasus-spyware-media-2023-03-03/

How you can even defend yourself against this? From thechnological standpoint we can try this or that but encroaching legislative changes will sooner or later push us against the wall. At the end of the day if law allows they will phisically take your device and phisically make you give them access and even if you install killswitch they simply will make it illegal and give you 5 years just for having it on your device.

That’s a separate discussion on its own as for some 1 second old human is one with their own rights. But then in Belarus there is a lot of things that are illegal and we consider normal, like saying your leader is corrupt. Should META comply just because it is local law?

At the end of the day it seems we just can not trust anything that isn’t encrypted.