5 ms·
> “Doors are now almost ubiquitous and are the default for most houses and buildings. If we do not provide for access to people's bathrooms when it is necessary
by saulrh 10y ago
> “Doors are now almost ubiquitous and are the default for most houses and buildings. If we do not provide for access to people's bathrooms when it is necessary and proportionate to do so then we must simply accept that there can be rooms beyond the reach of the law,”
There are well-established and functional methods for extending law into areas that you can't see all the time. You don't need to ban encryption, in exactly the same way that you don't have to ban doors. Just because it's ooon the iiiinterneeettttt doesn't mean you need to break everything.
- themartorana 10y agoOr how you don't have to ban virus scanners on Windows just in case UK spooks want to run a virus on your computer because no safe spaces for terrorists.
- logfromblammo 10y agoThe state's enforcers do not fear doors, because they have boots for kicking, and stout legs to fill them. Even the heavier doors can be breached by prybar, ram, cutting torch, or explosive. But when your bathroom door is protected by 256-bit encryption, the peace of your metaphorical deuce-dropping is (statistically) guaranteed until such time as the sun leaves the main sequence and devours the Earth. The states conveniently ignore that kicking down a toilet door to pick through someone's poo and count the peanuts is not generally beneficial to anyone's security, especially when holding out a net under the appropriate sewer pipe could usually achieve the same results with less public outrage. In any case, those with truly incriminating poo-peanuts will likely burn them, or head off into the woods with a trowel, and your toilet raids will only end up menacing those who linger too long in the stall, solving sudoku puzzles or practicing toilet-square origami, or whatnot.
- saulrh 10y agoExactly my point. Just like you don't mount cameras in everybody's bathrooms, you don't outlaw encryption. Instead, you install spy software on your target's computer, or you plant a bug in their light fixture, or subpoena Facebook to see if they ever messed up and said anything unencrypted. You can still find things out even if someone is being serious and uses end-to-end encryption, just like you can still find things out even if someone is being serious and burns their incriminating poo-peanuts.
- jon-wood 10y agoHow love how quickly this escalated, have you considered doing a comedy act?
- logfromblammo 10y agoMy ability to speak on stage before an audience ranges dangerously close to Harpo, Marceau, and Teller. I might be able to write for someone else, though.
- 49para 10y agoThere are actually laws in Canada that prevent you from having a fortified door that can't be broken down, by cop or criminal.