With Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, GPS transmitters, satellites, Google, upcoming facial recognition queries, DNA, fingerprint databases, and more law enforcement has more tools at their disposal than any other time in history.
It seems rather lazy and short-sighted of them to be pushing to compromise the security of all forms of encrypted communication just to make one aspect of their job a little easier. Besides, the Internet is global, so even if they succeeded, they'd simply push the innovative technology to other countries where it's still easily accessible to everybody except U.S. based businesses. How does that make our country more secure?
It seems rather lazy and short-sighted of them to be pushing to compromise the security of all forms of encrypted communication just to make one aspect of their job a little easier. Besides, the Internet is global, so even if they succeeded, they'd simply push the innovative technology to other countries where it's still easily accessible to everybody except U.S. based businesses. How does that make our country more secure?