The proper laws are already in place and on the books and work remarkably well.
There is a crime, you get a warrant or subpoena and you act on it. As long as it’s transparent it works. This idea that percolates particularly from the very left of the software community is dangerous as you pointed out.
They are so anti law enforcement they’d prefer to never help law enforcement do their job but at the end of the day, an overwhelming majority of the crimes they investigate are in support of actual crimes and not some oppressive government overreach.
It’s ok to not trust law enforcement, the US is built on distrust of government.. But then don’t cry bloody murder when nothing gets done because now you’ve tied their hands so much that they can’t investigate properly .
There is an excellent podcast called intelligence matters where an FBI chief went on to talk about end to end encryption and said something along the lines of yes e2e encryption hinders their job but if the public wants and supports that. Then they’ll have to work around it as long as the public understands reaction to crimes will be slowed drastically or go uninvestigated due to lack of evidence.
There is a crime, you get a warrant or subpoena and you act on it. As long as it’s transparent it works. This idea that percolates particularly from the very left of the software community is dangerous as you pointed out.
They are so anti law enforcement they’d prefer to never help law enforcement do their job but at the end of the day, an overwhelming majority of the crimes they investigate are in support of actual crimes and not some oppressive government overreach.
It’s ok to not trust law enforcement, the US is built on distrust of government.. But then don’t cry bloody murder when nothing gets done because now you’ve tied their hands so much that they can’t investigate properly .
There is an excellent podcast called intelligence matters where an FBI chief went on to talk about end to end encryption and said something along the lines of yes e2e encryption hinders their job but if the public wants and supports that. Then they’ll have to work around it as long as the public understands reaction to crimes will be slowed drastically or go uninvestigated due to lack of evidence.