I for one look forward to our federal overlords thinking they have any clue what kinds of transmissions deserve security /s. Seriously though, the legal tradit

I for one look forward to our federal overlords thinking they have any clue what kinds of transmissions deserve security /s. Seriously though, the legal tradition just hasn't caught up to the idea that somebody can possess information outside their person that can't be forced into the eye of the law. I've thought about this a lot and my best conclusion so far is "give up the encryption keys in exchange for immunity against legal cases that aren't yet open that the secured data might reveal, or you're guilty by default". Seems like the kind of thing prosecutors might think twice about, and it gives them a trump card in extraordinary circumstances. I don't love it, but all the other ideas i can come up with leave one party so heavily favored that either freedom dies or the government won't stop whining.