What's your solution to law enforcement in a world with end to end encryption? I'm interested in what your alternatives are.
I'm quoting only this part of what you said but I did read your message in full.
In my opinion, we should not be trading freedom and I consider privacy a part of our freedom for security. If you create these systems they will be abused. Either by those who control them or by criminals or other nation states.
When the NSA found lots of issues in Microsoft Windows did they report them to Microsoft so that they could be patched? - No. They held those vulnerabilities back and created tools to exploit them. Tools like
ETERNALBLUE.
Many people argued before ETERNALBLUE was created that the NSA should be able to horde vulnerabilities and create exploits because they need to keep the country safe and these tools allow them to gain access to private networks.
Of course what happened? - They got sloppy and this and many other exploit tools that the NSA created got out and were used by hackers and nation states (North Korea being one we're aware of) to create cryptolocking software that could move within Windows networks. This is the same malware that infected the NHS in Britain.
This is a case where had the NSA told Microsoft about these vulnerabilities, North Korea a nation state acting in a terrorist capacity would never have been able to perform the attacks on the national health service of Great Britain.
Getting back to wire taps. If you create a method to infiltrate private communications, those will be abused. It's a simple matter of fact, you give any organisation the ability to snoop and they will snoop without authorisation, information will leak. This is a lesson that people just don't seem to learn, information always leaks eventually.
The best thing to do, is to not create those backdoors, not to duplicate peoples private communications and give them to a shadowy governmental entity. I'm mindful of enacting godwin's law but what happened in Europe 75 years ago was some of the most efficient mass killing ever witnessed and it is information that drove that effort. Records, writings, texts of who people are, their families, their creeds. Mass databases available to a good government can quickly be utilised by an evil one for their own deeds.
We should always be mindful of history and respect its teachings. Often people say well what about the drug dealers, pimps, slave masters and terrorists going free because we couldn't intercept their communications? - I say to that, those kinds of people are often cunning. Drug dealers have been using burner phones for two decades now, terrorists have their own applications for encrypting their communications. We're not going to solve anything by breaching every persons communications on this planet and the dredges of society will always find a way around it.
