Yeah, your comment makes the tacit (and correct) assumption that "end to end" doesn't mean anything in the phrase "ban end-to-end encryption". "Banning end-to-

Yeah, your comment makes the tacit (and correct) assumption that "end to end" doesn't mean anything in the phrase "ban end-to-end encryption". "Banning end-to-end encryption" implies banning/backdooring all serious encryption, reviving the long lines of failed attempts but in the context where serious encryption has wide, wide, wide adoption. Earlier plan have quickly shown to be entirely impractical/counter-productive/corrosive. If you somehow enforced that, you can count on someone else besides the NSA getting the key. You would have to agree among all the world's states who gets the key or just create a "great US firewall" plus discarding all the infrastructure large companies have spent billions creating. You'd create a situation where "only outlaws have encryption", etc. What other plans can we come up with? Maybe put software engineers in camps along with the refugees?