However, law enforcement agencies around the world see "broken" ways to achieve this as a 'lesser of two evils' trade-off. Am I too paranoid (I hope I am) to envisage a scenario where Sam, our friendly US law enforcement officer asks Sheila, his friendly AU counterpart to request a copy of the conversation obtained through technical capability and assistance notices and share it back under 5 eyes agreements? Add the pending bilateral CLOUD act for an extra spicy double exchange sandwich?
I actually agree with you on this. I was personally involved in the past to advocate for stronger encryption ( https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/we... [1997]).
However, law enforcement agencies around the world see "broken" ways to achieve this as a 'lesser of two evils' trade-off. Am I too paranoid (I hope I am) to envisage a scenario where Sam, our friendly US law enforcement officer asks Sheila, his friendly AU counterpart to request a copy of the conversation obtained through technical capability and assistance notices and share it back under 5 eyes agreements? Add the pending bilateral CLOUD act for an extra spicy double exchange sandwich?