Also focusing on enforcement is making the perfect the enemy of the good. What percentage of communication in this country flows through either Apple, Google, Facebook, or Amazon? A solution that works for those 4 companies would be a huge step even if it wouldn't result in 100% coverage.
And just to be clear, I don't think the answer is necessarily backdoors in encryption. But I recognize that there is a problem and that we should be open to talk about ways to fix that problem.
>What percentage of communication in this country flows through either Apple, Google, Facebook, or Amazon?
You make it sound like data collection and snooping on innocent people is the whole point of it. If backdoors are required on communication that goes through Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon then nobody's going to use the communication on those services for illicit activity that the government would care about. They would use something else.
>But I recognize that there is a problem and that we should be open to talk about ways to fix that problem.
There is no talk to be had, because the entire idea is silly. If the US government can mandate backdoors then so will every other government. This would make everyone vulnerable.
You either protect everybody or you make the compliant vulnerable.
If you have a back door, it’s there for everybody not just the people it’s intended for. Additionally, there’s not going to be a way to force people to use the encryption that happens to have a backdoor.
It’s an algorithm. People who don’t obey the rules will just use a more secure method when they need to protect something.
This is why there’s no point to having the conversations except to explain it to people.