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Since 2010

Outlawing maths

Tom Scott, on Why The Government Shouldn’t Break WhatsApp on YouTube.

At about the 10 minute mark:

Anyone who wanted secure communication for evil purposes would just use something else. Any of thousands of smaller services that the government hasn’t noticed yet, or that they couldn’t possibly have jurisdiction over. Or if even that is not an option then they can come up with a code themselves.