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by matheusmoreira·6y ago·view on hn ↗
> Reasonable people consider trade-offs

Let's do that:

1. Easy to use and effective encryption for all people, even pedophiles and terrorists.

2. Backdoored untrustworthy encryption governments will almost certainly abuse in order to surveil entire populations.

Number 1 sounds like a very reasonable principle to have. Governments and police forces have more than enough tools at their disposal to fight crimes. WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption and my country's police forces routinely catch child molesters that use it. They do not need and should not have a "show me everything there is to know about this guy" button that they don't even need a warrant to press.

Certain things should be inviolable, even to the state, even with a warrant.