The secret of how to do strong encryption is out, since 1991. You can’t erase it from everyone’s minds. Criminals can not be stopped from using it by passing laws against it. Its only law-abiding people who will be made unsafe by that.
What about criminals with bad privacy practises?
No need to backdoor encryption then
True dat
I mean, yes and no. There’s stupid criminals and smarter ones. The general conclusion holds if backdoors stop teenagers from selling weed, but are then used by Russian hackers to conduct high-profile blackmail, though.
And then you get the near-certainty of some government using privileged access to do evil, as well.
Remember kids, encryption backdoors are no different to being told not to lock your backdoor because you might be doing something illegal in your house.
You’ll not only allow government access to your shit whenever they want, but also any hackers from Russia, China, North Korea, etcetera, to walk in whenever they want.
