Fedilab Apps on Nostr: A hypothetical about chat control and #HolosSocial Say a law one day required ...
A hypothetical about chat control and #HolosSocial
Say a law one day required client-side scanning. The relay only ever sees encrypted data, so a scan would catch nothing. To read content, it must run in the client, before encryption. A closed client could add it silently in an update. An open one cannot: the code is public, anyone can recompile without it.
Would an open source #E2EE messenger on the #Fediverse like Holos be breaking the law if it did nothing? I am not sure. Your opinion?
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