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Re:Scaring People into Supporting Backdoors by SpicyLemonZest on Thursday December 12, 2019 @02:02PM (#21775069)
The difference is that, unlike forests and private spaces, (easy and consumer-grade) E2E encryption is new. Law enforcement is concerned that adding this new thing to society will change things for the worse. That's a reasonable concern in general, even if we don't think it's true in this specific case.

You don't have a general right to keep secrets from law enforcement. With a warrant, they can spy on you to try and get your secrets in ways that would otherwise be scandalous or downright illegal. If you don't think law enforcement should be allowed to steal people's secrets at all, fair enough, but that's a very radical view and I don't think most people supporting E2E encryption share it.

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Re:Scaring People into Supporting Backdoors by deogeo on Thursday December 12, 2019 @02:38PM (#21775469)
Cameras and phone surveillance and miniature microphones are also new. When technology encroaches upon privacy, "that's just the way things are!", but when it protects it, "it's new and different and must be restricted!".

More to your point, I do think law enforcement should be allowed to spy on people when necessary (by whatever definition of 'necessary'). But that's a far cry from saying that people should be compelled to assist in the spying.

There's no warrant to compel someone to knowingly carry a bug.

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Re:Scaring People into Supporting Backdoors by Nasrudith on Thursday December 12, 2019 @06:00PM (#21777557)
Novelty is not an arguement against rights. Just because some in every generation is stupid enough to think so doesn't mean we should acknowledge it.
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