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What about warrants? The police can get a warrant to look inside your walls. You can’t do that with encryption.

• vcavallo 7y ago
  do you think warrant should also extend to the walls of your skull? should police be able to access your thoughts, given the correct warrant? the “walls” analogy is sort of unfortunate because it doesn’t apply evenly.
• SkyBelow 7y ago
  Only if they think something is already happening. A world where every room in every house is covered by cameras results in less child abuse than a world where warrants are required to search a house. How many children is privacy worth?
• Faark 7y ago
  > You can’t do that with encryption. Isn't the most effective way to get around encryption to compromise the endpoint? Obviously not after the fact, but I doubt a highly motivated and well funded police force would find ways to get eg video of a password being entered inside the house of nearly any selected criminal.
• croon 7y ago
  Encryption backdoors mean they can look at your data without your knowing. This is not equivalent to warrants. What they however can do is have a warrant to access your house, where some of your data might live, or potentially decryption keys. And they could potentially motivate you to reveal your keys. All of this is possible currently without encryption backdoors.