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That is the banner from the last battle. TLS is exactly the type of centralizing protocol that these people now want - "security" that is fully contingent upon (ie vulnerable to) corporate middlemen and other centralized entities.



CT literally exists.


Computed tomography? Certificate transparency? The Nutmeg State?

None of these have anything to do with the main problem with TLS as commonly used, which is that servers are fully trusted.


But, that’s the objective of TLS? TLS isn’t a barrier to e2ee.


Neither is TCP or IP. But none of them are sufficient to provide user to user security.

Bringing up TLS as if this bill is targeting it is missing the critical details of this new attack vector by our friendly geographical APT.




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