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It should be "If you outlaw End-to-End Encryption, only outlaws will have End-to-End Encryption."

Yep, my brain juddered and switched tracks between criminalise/criminals and outlaw/outlaws halfway through the sentence.

In practice if you offer criminals a choice of real encryption (Signal) or fake encryption (Sky ECC, Anom, etc.) they choose the fake encryption.

It's also worth pointing out that if you practise enough and with a little spare time you can do an dh key exchange with pen and paper. I look forward to the day when I am arrested for mathing too hard with random people in my neighbourhood (jk, there's not enough cops to arrest anyone anymore).

I guess it's easier to arrest people for encrypting stuff than proving they are dealing drugs.