> it’s obvious why someone dealing with this problem up close might be extremely highly motivated to solve it. It's obvious why law enforcement wants to ban en

> it’s obvious why someone dealing with this problem up close might be extremely highly motivated to solve it. It's obvious why law enforcement wants to ban encryption, sure--it means they have an excuse for not doing the actual hard work of gathering human intelligence about child predators and other nefarious actors, and shutting them down the old-fashioned way. Which says nothing at all about whether they actually can do the job better using Big Brother surveillance than they could the old-fashioned way.