alt Hacker NewsThe fly in the ointment is that they control the software and updates to that closed software so can short circuit that with appropriate pressure.
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mrexcess • yesterday at 11:37 PM
That would seem to constitute Honest Services Fraud under federal law, if they promised E2E then sabotaged it intentionally…
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Throwing this on the "brainstorm if we had an ideal legislative world" pile: Stealing a user's private key should be a felony, even if it hasn't (yet) been abused for anything.
The tricky part is keeping it from being "permitted" by a crappy contract of adhesion. Banning it entirely would make it very difficult to buy/sell backup services...