spaxxor

joined 1 year ago
[–] spaxxor@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Last time they tried this we fought a whole ass war over it. I highly doubt that it'll go nearly as swimmingly lol.

[–] spaxxor@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If physical contact was necessary for collaboration, then nearly every foss project would fail.

[–] spaxxor@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I see where they're coming from, but like every good idea the government has had its going to be abused and mutated into Satan's Christmas tree of a bill, and either be draconian or useless.

Also, this idea is shit for brains stupid lol

[–] spaxxor@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Remember, according to the small Canadian man, adblock is theft

[–] spaxxor@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

This is in my top ten favorite quotes.

[–] spaxxor@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Sadly not new. The USA considers encryption to be a weapon of war (thanks Germany), so they do whatever they can to interfere with it. If you are making a new encryption scheme it will be illegal if the government doesn't have an easy way to break it.

Edit: the guy that made pgp got in a stink with the government if memory serves they tried to bop him with something to do with itar.