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Just playing Devil's Advocate Why would should your phone be treated as 'equally opaque and inaccessible' be any different to the belongings in your house? You
by pedalpete 11y ago
Just playing Devil's Advocate
Why would should your phone be treated as 'equally opaque and inaccessible' be any different to the belongings in your house? Your office? Your car? Digital representations are not 'thoughts', they are an encrypted form of a physical thing (by encrypted I don't mean technological encryption, but we can't read the 0s and 1s without a app to decipher). How would an undeveloped roll of film be treated in a similar case? Would the FBI just go 'oops, not developed yet, guess we can't see what is in there'. No, they'd develop the film, plain and simple.
Just to be clear, I'm NOT suggesting we create back doors, but I don't see any physical object containing data to be the equivelant of what is in our minds.
More troubling, what happens when we create mind-readers? That's where things get really edgy.
- makecheck 11y agoUndeveloped film doesn’t meet the definition of inaccessible if it’s sitting on a desk in your house. It would have to be a roll of film that was buried under a million tons of concrete — you may know exactly where it is and suspect that its contents could be useful, yet you also know that it’s effectively gone and there’s no way it’s ever going to be retrieved. Encrypted devices have to be treated like they’re buried forever.