What’s happening right now is much worse than the first crypto wars. In that case the government was just trying to gain occasional access to suspected criminal

What’s happening right now is much worse than the first crypto wars. In that case the government was just trying to gain occasional access to suspected criminal communications, usually with a warrant. Systems like the Clipper chip even codified mechanisms to limit access to communications. What’s happening this time around is very different: policymakers are demanding the ability to perform real-time scanning of messages, without a warrant. This is technically very different and also has very different implications for privacy down the line.