The coming war on end-to-end encryption
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The coming war on end-to-end encryption
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Re: The coming war on end-to-end encryption
#2Nice! I worked on something that seems similar to this (https://redact.ws). Unfortunately there are a lot of challenges with adoption that seem difficult to overcome. One of the big challenges is that most people do not understand the nuances of privacy and encryption, and they aren't willing to jump through hoops to protect their data.
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#3This would be really great if there were an integration for dart/flutter. The fact that the API is implemented with such elderly stacks is kind of concerning
Re: The coming war on end-to-end encryption
#4If anyone is wondering what a solution can look like, which can strike a balance between privacy and social good, the end of the article links to another one: https://community.qbix.com/t/balancing-privacy-and-accountab...
Re: The coming war on end-to-end encryption
#5Nice! I worked on something that seems similar to this ( https://redact.ws ). Unfortunately there are a lot of challenges with adoption that seem difficult to overcome. One of the big challenges is that most people do not understand the nuances of privacy and encryption, and they aren't willing to jump through hoops to protect their data.
This is fascinating, I was thinking about doing something in a similar space. Does past tense "worked" mean you're not still working on it?
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#6Is the world becoming more and more Orwellian?
Is this a long term trend?
It got pretty much unnoticed on HN, that Europe recently voted to make all crypto payments illegal unless the seller collects the personal data of the buyer. Independent of the amount. So there will be a track record of everything bought via crypto.
Is it only a matter of time until cash is going away globally, and states have access to everything their people buy?
Regarding end-2-end encryption: It does not prevent a government from reading your messages anyhow. They could instruct Meta (or whichever company is in control of the app you use) to send them the the messages you write directly from your phone. Or from the phone of the receiver. Or to send them the private key from your phone. They could also ask Apple or Google to do so, since those have acceess to everything on your phone.
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#7This would be really great if there were an integration for dart/flutter. The fact that the API is implemented with such elderly stacks is kind of concerning
That’s an interesting point. I’m the chief architect of the company so I can speak to this, and happy to discuss / explore alternatives. But keep in mind we don’t have deep pockets, it took me 10 years of scraping by and paying my developers who have their families to support, just to get this far! (If you like mwhat we do and you’re thinking of supporting us with $100 or more, feel free here: https://wefunder.com/Qbix)
Wordpress powers 40% of all websites in the world. It’s written in PHP. Facebook has chosen PHP as well and has helped PHP to new heights of performance. PHP 8 with Swoole or simply AmPHP now outperforms Node.js for instance, in terms of efficiency. But plain old PHP code through php-fpm with enough instances can approach 50% of that with no custom coding.
PHP is the most widely deployed runtime for Web2 hosting, and EVM is the most widely deployed runtime for Web3 smart contracts. We always strived to target the most widely supported platforms, so people could find many hosts, or set up their own easily.
We will be carefully building out https://qbix.com/ecosystem to support hosting in a variety of environments, including with poor and nonexistent internet on commodity computers and wifi mesh networks. We work with groups that range from the Rohingya Project to the Forward Party. We often need high-speed low-latency multimedia to be available locally, eg for educational purposes or planning a dinner.
So why not go with a rock-solid, tried and true platform, and maintain backward compatibility? We purposely avoid even the latest ECMAScript or PHP 8 syntax, to make sure that Qbix can run anywhere, same as Wordpress.
PS: Just like Discourse (another open source project we have integrated with and whose community we are friends with) our entire platform can be used as a headless REST API, so nothing is stopping you from building a front end for it in Flutter or React Native or the newest kid on the block: MAUI from Microsoft. We bet the company on HTML like Zuckerberg did in 2014 and we stuck with it. You don’t need to even install an app these days — just go to a site like https://intercoin.app or https://yang2020.app and use it. Put it on your home screen to get notifications in iOS 16. Use a ContactPicker to invite friends privately. Having said that, we do support Cordova natively out of the box. Sometimes the old ways are best :)
Re: The coming war on end-to-end encryption
#8Nice! I worked on something that seems similar to this ( https://redact.ws ). Unfortunately there are a lot of challenges with adoption that seem difficult to overcome. One of the big challenges is that most people do not understand the nuances of privacy and encryption, and they aren't willing to jump through hoops to protect their data.
This is fascinating, I was thinking about doing something in a similar space. Does past tense "worked" mean you're not still working on it?
Not actively. It's open source so feel free to poke around our code and docs, and you can find a contact form on the site as well if you want to chat.
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#9The thing I don't get is... won't bans on end-to-end encryption ban https?
If I go to a website and ask for a web page over https, isn't the request and response between my device and the web server, an end-to-end encrypted message? Because the endpoints are my device and the web server.
If I can't send my credit card details to a payment provider over an end-to-end encrypted channel, doesn't all commerce on the web just fall apart?
How can a ban on end-to-end encrypted communication even fucking work?
Re: The coming war on end-to-end encryption
#10The coming war? It's been a protracted war since the 1980's. The NSA and the FBI have been hazing, threatening, infiltrating, and backdooring end-to-end encryption since the early days of PGP.