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The article's title is a little misleading, but I agree with their overarching message.

Law enforcement should never be given the easy way out in terms of breaking encryption. Asking for backdoors to be installed in every device is extremely lazy police work. I'm sure there are other ways of breaking encryption like the rubber-hose technique (of course with valid arrest warrant).

Arguing that law enforcement should stop attacking encryption because it jeopardises privacy seems a little naive to me. What about criminals that profit from creating spyware? In fact, allowing law enforcement to actively research new ways to break encryption can be productive for improving security in the long run. Stop using weak passwords people.



What I find most upsetting about this is that it seems the real goal is to defend the monopoly of big pharmaceutical companies and it has nothing to do with protecting the public. Cannabis is a great enemy of some corporations that are heavily pushing their opiate based drugs and they corrupt law makers and law enforcement to protect their markets at the expense of public who pays for it. This is obscene and erodes trust in any public services.


1. researching ways to break encryption is only productive if people are allowed to use the stronger encryption that comes from that research.

2. FBI isn’t arguing for new ways to break encryption, they’re arguing that old ways to cripple encryption should be used on purpose.


> I'm sure there are other ways of breaking encryption like the rubber-hose technique (of course with valid arrest warrant).

"rubber-hose technique" refers to torture, not to something that a warrant would allow.




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