alt Hacker NewsCentralized organizations with proprietary software can never offer meaningful end to end encryption because they can just ship an app update to disable or backdoor it at any time.
It is better for them to be forced to turn off the security theater so people that need actual privacy can research alternatives.
well, name an example of a thing that can never change then.
"research alternatives" meaning what exactly? You think open source is somehow not susceptible to the same issue, plus all of the malicious updates?