Re:Attorney General Barr and Encryption
by okmokmz on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @12:50PM
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>You can get mad about it, downvote me, but powerful law enforcement is a fact of modern life and it's not going away
You're right. The US, China, Russia, and many other authoritarian regimes and politicians are working on further militarizing law enforcement and chipping away at the protections of citizens, such as supporting backdoors in encryption. Not a world I want to live in
The weakening of encryption, which may allow bad actors to exploit what the government has access to, is the actual discussion that lawmakers are considering.
People have a real hard time with coming to terms with the powers that police have. Those are not in question though. You can get mad about it, downvote me, but powerful law enforcement is a fact of modern life and it's not going away. In the US, you'd need a constitutional amendment, and there's no one calling for it, it's not an issue on any of the major parties platforms.