Barr’s Encryption Push Is Decades in the Making
Go through each of the Bill of Rights, and for each produce a scenario where that right would be used by a criminal to protect him or her from planning, executing, and avoiding detection of a crime.<p>All individual rights are carved out from the default government, which is the one that takes absolute authority over all within its domain. North Korea is closest to this ideal today, but most vanilla monarchies were like this in the west.<p>Law enforcement officers (and politicians) must confront the simple fact that they must accept the restraints that the law places on them, even if it means letting the bad guy get away with it. Getting the bad guy at any cost (&quot;Tango and Cash&quot; style) makes a fun movie but it undermines the freedoms that our ancestors (by both blood and principal) fought and died for.