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The difference between us and what the big companies are doing is that they are encrypting messages between a device and their servers, whereas we are doing it device to device. So, we don’t know who our users are, who they’re talking to or what they’re saying. We can’t hand that information over: we don’t have it.
People my age might feel it’s too late. I’ve been using the internet for many years, and I could start using cryptography now, but what’s the point?
It’s a sort of brainwashing, this idea that resistance is impossible because it is too late. Security is not a state, it is a scale.