It's not black and white. And I am not offering e2e as THE solution to privacy and freedom, but as a part of it and an important metric of whether a solution is actually working right. Just because encryption does not protect me from EVERYTHING, like physical surveillance, that does not mean we should abandon it - THAT is black and white thinking.
Having the law being able to access encrypted communications at any time will trample at the examples I brought up, which are examples that came up with zero effort, no matter what you try to put into your proposed solution - if the goal is to prevent crime, and there are available solutions out there that allow for e2e communication, the goal does not stand. You can't have a corporation banned from e2e, but allow any random dude spin up a secure communication platform without any keys compromised - what are you even banning then.
It amazes me that "corrupt politicians" is shrugged off just like that, while corrupt officials of any kind is exactly what everyone need defenses against with ANY means. In China, they are in the process of legislating exactly what you propose - no private encryption key to be withheld from the law, and yes, you did not misunderstand, it's at the scale this implies, total control and ability to observe over all traffic and restive data at any time - even forgetting all that is happening now, that leaves little unattended by law there.
Now, what, China is a "bad example"? An "exception"? I'd say this attitude coming from governments is the norm around most the world. Where people are at real risk from what say say over the net.
Out of all such countries, let's take China. Do you believe China should reverse its course and allow encrypted communication for its citizens? Based on your words and thoughts, I say you would answer "no". It's doing exactly what you propose after all - now, the only tiny step to totally suit your proposal is to use their powers for "good"! Right? And they indeed using it for good, according to their own legislation.
Because, if you nonetheless said "yes, China should allow e2e in favour of its citizen's rights", you would in essence be saying that "Freedom loving Western countries" should give the law total access to any information (they will always do it only when needed, of course!), but the same countries should pressure "totalitarian regiments" to maintain their citizens rights including encryption. That's contradictory, at least by thinking about it only for a bit.
There's a correlation between these things. Any power given is sure to be abused. If that is not prevented and pushed back, it will not stop but worsen. Trying to find a formula to give absolute power and restrict it at the same time is just fooling around, it's the core assumptions that matter. Unless you really think that some governments are somehow immune to becoming corrupt ant totalitarian when meeting no resistance - their people must be saints indeed! - in which case, I am sorry to say, but I can only chuckle.
Read what my proposal was and stop beating the strawman (i wont attribute this to malice as you clearly havent read any of it).
With my proposal law enforcement can access to the unencrypted data far less that they can do it now (under the rag) and when they access they are under scrutiny of judges while it prevents corporations accessing it.
Maybe do take time to think about what country is, what government is and to who it serves, what corporation is and to who it serve, maybe ask yourself what the law enforcement is and who does it serve, if you dare go into further, what if there would be no law enforcement? Do you have the muscless for that?
Or chuckle mindlessly on. I think your whole statement is demanding advantages in system where someone else takes care for you to allow you to not think about dissadvantages.
Having the law being able to access encrypted communications at any time will trample at the examples I brought up, which are examples that came up with zero effort, no matter what you try to put into your proposed solution - if the goal is to prevent crime, and there are available solutions out there that allow for e2e communication, the goal does not stand. You can't have a corporation banned from e2e, but allow any random dude spin up a secure communication platform without any keys compromised - what are you even banning then.
It amazes me that "corrupt politicians" is shrugged off just like that, while corrupt officials of any kind is exactly what everyone need defenses against with ANY means. In China, they are in the process of legislating exactly what you propose - no private encryption key to be withheld from the law, and yes, you did not misunderstand, it's at the scale this implies, total control and ability to observe over all traffic and restive data at any time - even forgetting all that is happening now, that leaves little unattended by law there.
Now, what, China is a "bad example"? An "exception"? I'd say this attitude coming from governments is the norm around most the world. Where people are at real risk from what say say over the net.
Out of all such countries, let's take China. Do you believe China should reverse its course and allow encrypted communication for its citizens? Based on your words and thoughts, I say you would answer "no". It's doing exactly what you propose after all - now, the only tiny step to totally suit your proposal is to use their powers for "good"! Right? And they indeed using it for good, according to their own legislation.
Because, if you nonetheless said "yes, China should allow e2e in favour of its citizen's rights", you would in essence be saying that "Freedom loving Western countries" should give the law total access to any information (they will always do it only when needed, of course!), but the same countries should pressure "totalitarian regiments" to maintain their citizens rights including encryption. That's contradictory, at least by thinking about it only for a bit.
There's a correlation between these things. Any power given is sure to be abused. If that is not prevented and pushed back, it will not stop but worsen. Trying to find a formula to give absolute power and restrict it at the same time is just fooling around, it's the core assumptions that matter. Unless you really think that some governments are somehow immune to becoming corrupt ant totalitarian when meeting no resistance - their people must be saints indeed! - in which case, I am sorry to say, but I can only chuckle.