Interesting. How does this work for the telephone company? I was under the impression you needed a warrant to get a "soft" wire tap. Once digital switching w

Interesting. How does this work for the telephone company? I was under the impression you needed a warrant to get a "soft" wire tap. Once digital switching was implemented, there was code that could record voice conversations. Law enforcement agents could request that the recording be turned on. Source: I implemented this on telephone equipment that most people here are likely to have used ;-). Surely this would be the same. Now that I think of it, the idea of end to end privacy never really was a thing before we had ubiquitous encryption. Involving a third party always meant that you were vulnerable at that third party. So, I suppose that you could implement laws that dissallow E2E encryption, but still allows encryption from the client to the service -- allowing the service to record the data if presented with a warrant. Now that I think about it, the "wire tapping" code in the telephone switches were literally a legal requirement for selling the equipment otherwise they would never have convinced me to write the code! Now that I'm older and wiser, I'd never do it again... but I kind of understand the symmetries....