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But, I think the government should, with a warrant, be able to open peoples mail in transit. And they currently do. E2E encryption with no backdoor removes this

• diminoten 7y ago
  It's really a question of scale. Would you be as okay with the government's ability to do this if they could flip a switch and suddenly do it for all of a person's mail immediately and without detection? What about making that system available to anyone, irrevocably, who managed to get access to that system at one point? And would you put penalties in place for people who, when their mail is opened, are found to be using a cypher of their own? Is it illegal now to speak in code at all?
• emilecantin 7y ago
  Yes, and that's a debate we should have as a society. I personally think privacy is more important than government's ability to peek at private conversations, but this is something we should collectively decide.