Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "End-to-End Encryption Will Be a Historical Footnote!" video.

Keep in mind that at their peak they also employed over 10% of the population of East Germany as part of the security apparatus either directly as agents or indirectly as informers. I shudder to think what they could have done if they had the Supreme Court on their side, letting them access every single letter going through the network without putting any effort into collecting it. End-to-end encryption ought to be a basic human right given that it's effectively the only way to maintain the same level of privacy that used to be the norm. If nobody was around to hear you saying things, then there was no ability to retrieve that conversation later.
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