Here's a question that's been intriguing me a while. What would be the harms of a ban on end-to-end encryption in mass-market products? People feel safe using Gmail and Telegram routinely for sensitive stuff. What argument do you have for E2E for civilians that really resonates?
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That proposal would be, frankly, 10,000x more confidence-inspiring than what Congress will actually do: Just pass a law like Feinstein-Burr that tosses the problem to individual providers.
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The thing to keep in mind here is that there are very specific political reasons that DoJ, FBI and the NSA are not putting forward a proposal like “we build a nationwide key escrow system, Google will run it, and here’s the design.” They could do that but are avoiding it.
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Can Google resist a determined attack by a major intelligence agency? I don't think so. Recall that they were hacked by China ~10 years ago. Sure, their defenses are better now—but the attackers are better, too.
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