> Can anyone propose anything better Widespread education about how child abuse usually works in the real world outside of movies, public examination of what t

> Can anyone propose anything better Widespread education about how child abuse usually works in the real world outside of movies, public examination of what tools we have available and whether they're being used effectively, very public stats about how prevalent the problem is and what direction it's moving in. Better media that more accurately reflects how these problems play out for real people and that doesn't use them as a cheap gimmick to pray on people's fears to raise narrative stakes. Better education about the benefits of encryption and the risks of abuse, better education about how back doors play out in the real world and how they are abused both by governments and by individual abusers. Better education about the fail-rate of these systems. > Child pornography and the related abuse is widely thought of as a massive problem, that is facilitated by encrypted communication and digital photography. Most people don't have a basis for this instinct, they believe it because they were taught it, because it's what the movies tell them, because it fits their cultural perception of technology, because it's what the CIA and FBI tell them. Unless they're basing their fear on something other than emotion and instinct, there is no technical or political solution that will reduce their fear. It's all useless. Only education and cultural shifts will make them less afraid. If you survey the US, over 50% of adults will tell you that crime today is at the same level or worse than it was in 1950s, an absurd position that has no basis in reality. So what, should we form a police state? At some point, caring about the real problems we have in the real world means learning to tell people that being scared of technology is not a good enough justification on its own to ban it. Nothing else will work. People's irrational fears by and large will not be alleviated by any technical solutions. They won't even be alleviated by what Apple is doing, parents who have an irrational fear of privacy are not going to have that fear lessened because Apple introduced this scanning feature. They will still be afraid.