It's only possible to target services that have a central point of contact / administration. I don't want to invoke 'web 3.0' specifically, but the essentially headless decentralisation of encrypted communications services would be like trying to catch 'all the gas in the room' in your hand with a single clap, wouldn't it?
It feels like, even if they win this battle in the crypto wars, the real battleground has actually moved on anyway.
As an aside, that recent "Ghost Chat" infiltration[0][1] that apparently took down a few international crime gangs, wouldn't a Matrix / Synapse server and clients be a better option for encrypted communications than a custom phone/app?
It feels like, even if they win this battle in the crypto wars, the real battleground has actually moved on anyway.
As an aside, that recent "Ghost Chat" infiltration[0][1] that apparently took down a few international crime gangs, wouldn't a Matrix / Synapse server and clients be a better option for encrypted communications than a custom phone/app?
[0]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-17/afp-raids-ghost-app-f...
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41566948