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0 pointsnine_k4mo ago0 comments

It's a bit like the famous HN post where somebody said that Dropbox is not needed if you have rsync and friends.

Technically this can even be correct. You can build and operate a good, secure solution for yourself if you have time and skill to build. Could make sense for a company handling sensitive data. Would hardly make sense for most individuals who are not professional SREs / SWEs. (To check how it feels, an engineer can try to sew themself a pair of pants to wear daily, or do something similarly mundane in what they are not skilled.)

A solution that can reliably work for non-experts is very important.

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benoau4mo ago

Sure but in this case most of the difficulties are artificially imposed by Apple, depending on how the tribunal responds to their alleged iCloud monopoly it could become as simple as choosing a compatible provider and putting your username/password in.

smsm424mo ago

And as soon as you have "a provider" as a business entity, UK government can ban them from providing E2EE solutions to Apple users the same way they did ban Apple. Or the provider would just silently bend over hand hand all the keys to the UK govt.

benoau4mo ago

They can't police every online server you can possibly rent, and they can't police them "all at once" like they can with the Google/Apple duopoly, all they can do is go after them one-by-one as they need access and as we see with 4chan, rejecting their assertions on jurisdiction is certainly an option.

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0 pointsnine_k4mo ago0 comments

It's a bit like the famous HN post where somebody said that Dropbox is not needed if you have rsync and friends.

A solution that can reliably work for non-experts is very important.

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