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Counterpoint (playing devil's advocate) - if we ban e2e encryption platforms (or require a backdoor), then anyone found to be using a non backdoored tool is sus
by anonymousDan 7y ago
Counterpoint (playing devil's advocate) - if we ban e2e encryption platforms (or require a backdoor), then anyone found to be using a non backdoored tool is suspicious, reducing the effort required for law enforcement investigations.
- em-bee 7y agobut then how am i going to keep my ssh server safe? i get break-in attempts every second. if ssh gets a backdoor, then i guarantee you it will be exploited. intruders may not care about my communication, but they do care about being able to access my servers, so you can not force me to use encryption with a backdoor without putting me and my company at risk. if encryption without a backdoor gets outlawed entirely i'll go out of business because i will no longer be able to run any servers.
- atoav 7y agoThis would be only true if this was a international law. In all other cases you will have a ton of people just using what the other side under a different jurisdiction uses without even knowing it has no backdoor in it. The increase in false positives that comes with this will make it an unusable heuristic to identify criminals.