It's been a few weeks since I listened to the podcast, but I thought Dance explicitly mentioned how sad it was for Facebook to get a bad rep for releasing those numbers when such transparency is a positive thing. It shows that they're at least trying to get it off their platform. And if more people knew the numbers, this issue would finally become too large of an elephant to ignore.
And he did offer one concrete solution: platforms with easy discoverability (in other words, easy to masquerade as and target teens) may not need end-to-end encryption. Let FB and such run their algorithms on those messages. And it may be safe to assume three letter agencies are listening in. End-to-end encryption still serves its purpose for whistleblowing, privacy, and fair democracy; it'll just be found elsewhere, like Signal and such.
This still isn't an ideal solution. I personally think it's an unwinnable battle. Easily duplicated instantaneous secure multimedia communication is ridiculously revolutionary.
And he did offer one concrete solution: platforms with easy discoverability (in other words, easy to masquerade as and target teens) may not need end-to-end encryption. Let FB and such run their algorithms on those messages. And it may be safe to assume three letter agencies are listening in. End-to-end encryption still serves its purpose for whistleblowing, privacy, and fair democracy; it'll just be found elsewhere, like Signal and such.
This still isn't an ideal solution. I personally think it's an unwinnable battle. Easily duplicated instantaneous secure multimedia communication is ridiculously revolutionary.