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?
people can already “vibe code” p2p encrypted apps for communications, its not that hard and it will only get easier to do.
HOWEVER. obviously not bullet proof, and once meaningful quantum computing combines with AI every keystroke and deleted message, every sneeze or fart you had near a smart phone or a router in your life will be recorded and accessed by it, at the will of its controllers.
every recorded secret will be known, or at least be accessible. the blackmail is gonna be off the chain hook. people are going to start doing things that make zero sense. and youll know why.
“in 2008, senator, you googled “how to tuck my wiener so i can fart into my urethra” in twelve separate variations, and when that didnt yield the results you wanted. you looked up “how to inject fart into urethra, safely”… now, you are going to vote yay on the children coal miners bill, or we’ll drop 2008s search history, and maybe take a look at 2014 to see how you discovered how you wanted to be a furrys “dog knotted bitch slave” while on vacation in vegas…looks like we have all the messages…every second of your visit was recorded by your cell phone and iWatch, all the way down to your heart rate spiking when “white fang” pegged you for the first time that weekend…so…its gonna be a…yay?”