> whatever you may feel about politicians, they do have the legitimacy and power to do so. They have the constitutions, legislative powers, courts of law, and

> whatever you may feel about politicians, they do have the legitimacy and power to do so. They have the constitutions, legislative powers, courts of law, and police forces to make this happen. Do they have the actual power? As the article states, the reason for the all or nothing approach is that we currently don't have any way to do a middle ground with TLS. We have the technology, and it's already available anywhere. How do you actually put that genie back in the bottle? Probably the best you can do is heavy handed enforcement. That also does nothing to deal with the fact that an organization like ISIS are going to find ways to continue to use strong encryption.