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> These are high victim impact crimes that are being hindered by the inability of law enforcement to access encrypted communications. Consider that, on some ti
by esotericn 8y ago
> These are high victim impact crimes that are being hindered by the inability of law enforcement to access encrypted communications.
Consider that, on some time scale, we (or at least, some actor) will eventually possess the technology required in order to read minds.
At that point it will be possible to determine passcodes from suspects; to determine the content of previous conversations (subject to the limitations of human memory); essentially, to extract testimony from an unwilling participant.
Will we allow that? Because, by this token; one could just as easily state that law enforcement are being hindered by their inability to access ....