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In general, there is already a solution to this. It's a search warrant or subpoena and a judge; judges have ordered encryption opened in the past and defendants
by TheCondor 11y ago
In general, there is already a solution to this. It's a search warrant or subpoena and a judge; judges have ordered encryption opened in the past and defendants comply or can get contempt. All this is about the Feds snooping without anyone knowing..
Perhaps another approach to this would be to lobby that all government encryption, including military, be key escrowed so that the populus could review the communication in the future. They won't like that but at least there is a legitimate use case for it.
- studentrob 11y ago> Perhaps another approach to this would be to lobby that all government encryption, including military, be key escrowed so that the populus could review the communication in the future It's not practical. Terrorists would just use the free encryption software that doesn't use escrowed keys. They're the fish we want to fry the most and they will be the first to not use whatever the US government tries to manipulate.
- x0054 11y agoThe solution is simple, we simply need to pass a law which makes it illegal for terrorists to use non escrowed key encryption software :)