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in privacy •  5 years ago 

The EARN IT (Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies) Act is making its way through Congress. This is being portrayed as a way to end human trafficking and child enslavement.

What is truly does it allow for the end of end-to-end encryption of messenger applications. This means the government would have access to all communications taking place via messenger applications.

In response, one developer decided to use blockchain as the solution.

Bitcoin Cash developer Chris Troutner has taken the fight for privacy to new levels after creating an encrypted messaging system that harnesses Bitcoin Cash transactions.

According to him, this works similar to email.

"In email, you get someone's public key, encrypt the message, and only the person with the private key can decrypt the message," Troutner told Decrypt.

This messenger works just like a Bitcoin transaction. Anyone can see it but only the one with the private key can access and decrypt the message.

Congress is moving this Act while hiding under the distraction of the virus. This is supported by freedom haters like Lindsey Graham.

"To prove how ineffective these lawmakers will be, I put this video demo of some software I wrote. It lets you encrypt a message and send it to someone using Bitcoin Cash,” Troutner wrote on a Reddit thread. "There isn't a damn thing any state actor can do to stop the communication or break the encryption. Bitcoin does not respect laws."

https://decrypt.co/26138/bitcoin-cash-powered-message-app-promises-unbreakable-encryption

For a number of years, I believed the technology exists to counter what the governments and mega-corporations are doing. This is going to create a struggle since we have tens of millions of people around the world who are capable of developing solutions to government overreach.

This is not likely to be the last application like this created. We are going to see more innovators come up with answers to the invasion of privacy and government's quest for more power.

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It was a nice thing we had once, wasn't it? I do have just one issue with your article here and I would like to take the time to hopefully clarify a bit.

"government's quest for more power", isn't the most accurate statement. People tend to waste their energy blaming the Government (ie, mind-control) without realizing that since the inception of the Federal Reserve Bank, we ceased to have a democracy. The Fed is and always has been, over our so called, "Democracy". The Fed holds all of the power. Thanks to lobbying, these greedy banksters can put anyone into power they want, or coerce anyone they don't want into doing the things they want them to do.

So, it really isn't the Government's fault. They are only doing what their Masters tell them to do, often under the threat of the penalty of death.

It was are careless use of the Fed's Reserve Notes that created this pyramid of power in this country. We never should of let that institution exist from the beginning. It was Congress's power to print debt free money that made this country great back in the day. Sad to say it but, those days are gone my friends. We are about to enter 1984X10.

Have fun with that. Though, my best advice is for all of you to grow food if you can and to avoid vaccines at ALL costs. Good luck, people.

Jesus tap dancing christ, why won't it let me Edit my previous comment?

I fucking hate the state of technology these days. It is garbage compared to the tech I had access to 15 years ago. It seems like nothing works these days.