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> I hope you know that, because I don't know a single person, expert or not who with confidence can claim "going dark" isn't going to be "that bad". I can clai

• josefresco 9y ago
  Like phone taps, electronic bugs and good old fashion in-person surveillance? How is that "dark" exactly? I expect privacy when I'm in my home, and on the telephone - did/do the FBI consider these off limits? They don't obviously, but how is this different?
  • Slansitartop 9y ago
    > Like phone taps, electronic bugs and good old fashion in-person surveillance? How is that "dark" exactly? There was a time even before telephones and electronics. I'm much more comfortable with law enforcement having to go back to using electronic bugs, in-person surveillance, and physical evidence gathering. Those things don't scale and don't have the security implications of their desired backdoors.
    • josefresco 9y ago
      > There was a time even before telephones and electronics. Requiring law enforcement to use "pre electricity" technology only to catch thieves who are using cutting edge technology is incredibly naive. I can understand the worry about scaling specifically, but talk about "handcuffing" law enforcement! Also, since phone-taps are scalable, they'd have to drop that too - which would leave them with quite a toolset /s