A warning: beware legislation (or non-legislative regulation or order) that attempts to accommodate the problems inherent in exceptional access. Tech-focused pe

A warning: beware legislation (or non-legislative regulation or order) that attempts to accommodate the problems inherent in exceptional access. Tech-focused people often use strict logic-based categories when considering if something is good/bad/useful/whatever. "Exceptional access" would create serious problems in many areas, so the entire concept should be abandoned. While this is true, legislators often add exceptions to legislation. For example, it would be a lot harder to argue that there is a national security risk in legislation that only mandated exceptional access to the crypto used in consumer-level phones. Law enforcement, business, etc gets real crypto with the excuse "why would a business owner be a terrorist?" or similar nonsense. > deliberately disingenuous At a minimum, this has to be the case for the people that were arguing against encryption since the first crypto war.