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IMHO, this type of sites should be developed and owned by the government. It's OK if someone finds a way to monetize this, but the directory itself should be public.

Ha. Last time I wanted to buy something on Amazon, their search page kept freezing every time I load it: 100% CPU load. Because I really wanted to buy that thing, I spent 30 mins debugging their silly scripts and found one for-loop that tries to find a non-existent element. Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out a way to enable my fix in a minified script, as reloading the page kept loading the original script.

This sounds like what CIA should be doing, right? It's like saying that military has an agenda to build more aircraft carriers and control all movements in the open waters.

The only thing I wonder about is whether this encryption crisis is just a lazy attempt to preserve the no longer working espionage methods or it's a smart conspiracy of evil people to break the humanity: convince people that there is a child or whatever problem and convince them to build the 24/7 monitoring system. This way people would build a prison for themselves.

If a cipher can be broken by the government, it can also be broken by narco cartels or mafia states. The targets will be key decision makers, not regular citizens, but their decisions, coerced by those mafia states, will harm regular citizens.

Unlike physical locks, breaking encrypted data doesn't need physical presence. This means that not just local authorities under an elected Sheriff can break into one's house, but also completely random people from say China or KSA can teleport in, break in and kidnap the data.

In the near future we'll have a brain-to-computer-to-internet interface. This will be a big leap forward or backwards as it can be used for rapid collaboration or total undisputable survelliance for a greedy dictator. The crypthography case today will set the precedent for tomorrow. Btw, even the 24/7 thoughts monitoring can be used for good: someone really advanced, a saint-like person, could be giving advice on what's wrong with your thoughts. But we understand that the humanity is far from this level of maturity.