I was thinking that was more on the lines of crypto encryption. I remember when Bitcoin started getting real popular they were saying there was a way for people to send vids and shit like coins. No way to trace and being encrypted and all. And people were using bitcoin & other crypto to xfer money for illegal shit.
Actually, if they get a subpoena - shouldn't they have access? I'm not in love with the idea, but it stands to reason that if they need to get a subpoena to access the data, it should help make a legal framework to undo the Patriot Act Spying on all information running across the internet they're collecting ad nauseam.
As designed, end-to-end (E2E) encrypted systems promise that the only parties Involved in a communication may decrypt messages sent. Such services act as a conduit for encrypted messages, and they facilitate the setup of the encrypted channel, but do not ever know the secrets required to decrypt. They cannot be compelled to decrypt in service of a subpoena because they never have the ability to do so. This protects the users from non-government attempts on the privacy of a communication, and any government-mandated weakening of strong encryption would necessarily facilitate bad actors’ attempts to break encryption. There is no known mathematical trick to create additional access to encrypted data without weakening the underlying encryption.
Such laws would compel makers of e2e communication systems to cease e2e encryption. This is a terrible idea on its face.
I was thinking that was more on the lines of crypto encryption. I remember when Bitcoin started getting real popular they were saying there was a way for people to send vids and shit like coins. No way to trace and being encrypted and all. And people were using bitcoin & other crypto to xfer money for illegal shit.
Actually, if they get a subpoena - shouldn't they have access? I'm not in love with the idea, but it stands to reason that if they need to get a subpoena to access the data, it should help make a legal framework to undo the Patriot Act Spying on all information running across the internet they're collecting ad nauseam.
As designed, end-to-end (E2E) encrypted systems promise that the only parties Involved in a communication may decrypt messages sent. Such services act as a conduit for encrypted messages, and they facilitate the setup of the encrypted channel, but do not ever know the secrets required to decrypt. They cannot be compelled to decrypt in service of a subpoena because they never have the ability to do so. This protects the users from non-government attempts on the privacy of a communication, and any government-mandated weakening of strong encryption would necessarily facilitate bad actors’ attempts to break encryption. There is no known mathematical trick to create additional access to encrypted data without weakening the underlying encryption.
Such laws would compel makers of e2e communication systems to cease e2e encryption. This is a terrible idea on its face.