Altogether the line of reasoning sounds like the usual hype you put into grant applications. Your line of work is highly strained hydrocarbons, so when you apply to the Department of Energy you say in the distant future you won't synthesize 100 mg, you'll prepare hundreds of tons to put it into a rocket to increase its payload.

Bonus points are available for combinations.

Let's do that:

1. Easy to use and effective encryption for all people, even pedophiles and terrorists.

2. Backdoored untrustworthy encryption governments will almost certainly abuse in order to surveil entire populations.

Number 1 sounds like a very reasonable principle to have. Governments and police forces have more than enough tools at their disposal to fight crimes. WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption and my country's police forces routinely catch child molesters that use it. They do not need and should not have a "show me everything there is to know about this guy" button that they don't even need a warrant to press.

Certain things should be inviolable, even to the state, even with a warrant.

Either way, the goal would still be to identify an adult victim of trafficking by the last available picture of them, which was of them as a child.

> In 2001, UPenn released a study conducted in 17 cities across the United States [in which] they estimated as many as 300,000 American youth may be at risk of commercial sexual exploitation at any time. However, the actual number of children involved in prostitution is likely to be much smaller: over 10 years only 827 cases a year had been reported to police departments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_trafficking_in_the_United_...

Estimates differ wildly because many feel actual reports dramatically undercount reality. IMO even one is too many, but exaggerating does more harm than good.

You know I think there's a middle ground between being adamantly opposed to mass surveillance and taking child sex trafficking seriously. I personally know people (plural) that this has happened to and it's pretty irritating to see that issue cavalierly dismissed for argumentative purposes or tech cred points.

It is if you sell FUD.