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This episode might be the most interesting take on end-to-end encryption I've heard yet: as an enforcer of "charisma neutrality", which likens to something like net neutrality, but against demagoguery podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bre overcast.fm/+SuMmRmJt8
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If I understand correctly, E2E takes out the group of idiots in the middle, which is the leverage used by demagogues to control the tide of public discourse. Without idiots in the middle, worldviews are shaped by private convo, and thus only organic support for ideas can arise?
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Well you’re conflating the technical man-in-middle of a p2p channel and the middle of the crowd in an open pool medium, but in a way that’s kinda right for both. In the former, idiot-in-middle might archive cleartext insecurely for hackers to steal.
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There have always been ways of increasing the costs of surveillance. They're never perfect tools, but they serve a useful function - providing the choice of privacy for any message worth less to the attacker than the cost of circumvention. Anything worth more ~will be broken
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