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Re:Nuts and Bolts of Encryption: A Primer for Policymakers [... by DarkKomunalec on Friday February 24, 2017 @03:50AM (#13722107)
In addition to the 1st amendment problems of banning certain kinds of code, I think forcing encryption to have a backdoor could be construed as part of a search, and so run afoul of the 4th amendment. Who knows what the courts might say though - I wonder if there's any precedent...
Re:Nuts and Bolts of Encryption: A Primer for Policymakers [... by post_meridiem on Friday February 24, 2017 @11:22AM (#13724992)
The 4th does state that it is "The right of the people to be secure in their [...] papers [...]." I'd love to witness a judicial argument that seeks to extend this to code/binary 'goods.'