Law enforcement and politicians wants laws against end-to-end encryption. Lately they have written some papers about terrorism and “think of the children” problems with encryption. Those who wrote that the politicians were fighting against the laws of mathematics are quiet now. They did not understand how powerful political power is. This should not be about if encryption is dangerous. It should be about if a free country can make laws against encryption. I believe that encryption is dangerous when used by some people. The state should be able to stop me from encrypting a message and send it to somebody. What would be the illegal part. I started to think about it tonight after reading somebody’s blog post. He knows that encryption can be dangerous and still argue that it should be legal. Much better than others who argue that there is no problems with end-to-end encryption.
https://blog.sean-wright.com/why-im-opposed-to-encryption-backdoor-proposals/
On the face of it, I can understand why the proposals are being tabled. Criminals will no doubt be making great use of encryption to hide their criminal activities, both to help them carry out criminal acts as well as preventing prosecution against them. However I do have concerns that if we do put some type of mechanism into place which would allow law enforcement to be able to read this private data, it may jeopardise legitimate use of encryption for ordinary law abiding citizens.