> But I simply can’t understand pure motivations for dumping millions into weakening encryption. It will generate a few reports to law enforcement, when a very

> But I simply can’t understand pure motivations for dumping millions into weakening encryption. It will generate a few reports to law enforcement, when a very few very stupid or careless criminals mess up. And it will keep a few copies of certain images from getting forwarded. That's it. That's your pure motivation. These are true fanatics. The fact that law enforcement already has more reports than it can handle doesn't matter. There's always a chance that one of them could be actionable. The fact that the same images are still going to circulate through other channels, and that most people who want them will still find them, doesn't matter. There's always a chance that one person won't get a copy. The fact that the responses will often be ineffective doesn't matter. At least somebody will get a chance to try. The fact that the system can be repurposed to create a police state doesn't matter, because one incident of CSA outweighs anything else that could happen. If it saves just one child, nothing else matters. Oh, and by the way, sexual abuse is the worst thing that could possibly happen to any child, including murder. The fact that the data will be abused for CSA does not compute. Of course all the people working against this scourge will be pure of heart. And of course a giant database can be made perfectly secure if you just nerd harder. The fact that police states are dangerous places for children also does not compute. Because that would mean that there was nothing to do about the most important problem that could ever exist. And that can't be, because we live in a just world.