A “lawful request” is determined by whatever state has jurisdiction. As they say, encryption is vital to human rights activists in China or democracy supporters in Belarus, however it would be destroyed because these countries can indeed make “lawful requests” for the information.
For thousands of years, humans have been allowed to communicate privately with each other. We should not regress that. Criminals will always exist and we should do our best to identify and bring them to justice, but not at the expense of free society.
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Exactly. This is an impossibility.
A “lawful request” is determined by whatever state has jurisdiction. As they say, encryption is vital to human rights activists in China or democracy supporters in Belarus, however it would be destroyed because these countries can indeed make “lawful requests” for the information.
For thousands of years, humans have been allowed to communicate privately with each other. We should not regress that. Criminals will always exist and we should do our best to identify and bring them to justice, but not at the expense of free society.