Re:Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more...
by whiddershins on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @06:57AM
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I think this argument makes me more sympathetic to law enforcement’s desire than any other I’ve heard.
I can really flip my brain around and see how this desire for non encrypted communication to be the standard could come from a good place.
That said, I still come back to my default stance: crimes need to be exist outside of the private communication, to be a crime. At least under US law, where it’s very hard for just pure communication alone to be a crime.
So go investigate whatever it is that is an actual crime and causing actual harm. Making communication not private has tremendous potential chilling effects on actual thought, because people think by talking!
I can really flip my brain around and see how this desire for non encrypted communication to be the standard could come from a good place.
That said, I still come back to my default stance: crimes need to be exist outside of the private communication, to be a crime. At least under US law, where it’s very hard for just pure communication alone to be a crime.
So go investigate whatever it is that is an actual crime and causing actual harm. Making communication not private has tremendous potential chilling effects on actual thought, because people think by talking!