UK intelligence recycles “think of the children” argument for borking encryption
Is there a way that we can better balance the needs to surveil against the legitimate fears of the populace about chilling effects that broad law enforcement domination of electronic media could create?Can we somehow effectively, assuredly, in a way that citizens can trust, limit the surveillance activities to legitimate national security and lifesaving actions?Because the only alternative, to me, seems worse: a world in which our adversaries maintain the advantage in information asymmetry against us, knowing more about our own society than we do, and thereby maintaining an ability to act against our society in ways we cannot detect or attribute.