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> And none of these things were ever made illegal.

Those things are barriers that make it more difficult to be criminal. We're talking about a factor that removes those barriers and makes it easier.

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Not sure it's ever been particularly difficult to be a criminal. If anything, the tricky part has always been establishing who you can and can't trust.

You don't need to trust people as much with an e2ee app. Especially if you use it to deliver the goods and use crypto to get paid.

What are you talking about? Thieves' cant, burner phone, clandestine meetings--these are all things that make crime easier, and none of them are illegal. We ban crime, not things that allow crime.

How is it complicated? Having to do these things made crime difficult. There's higher barrier to entry and cost to pay. It's more difficult to scale across borders. Not having to do them makes it easier.

The internet makes crime easier; should we ban it too? Before cars, you could only steal what you could carry--maybe we should abolish cars too. "Barrier to entry for crime" is not a useful metric, because it encompasses so many things.

Or do you want a police state?

You forget that internet makes police work easier too and there's processes for shutting down a dark market website for example

With e2ee though it's not like that

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