This will not work for many reasons, most importantly:
- Key escrow or government-enabled crypto doesn't work
- Creating classes of encryption doesn't work (Excluding a group and not allowing them to use the same crypto as another group)
- If someone is going to do something unlawful, they will use something else that isn't accessible by the government; take away phone encryption and they will simply use something else
Unless those points are solved, the whole 'should we allow it' discussion is pointless anyway.
Tacking on to that: most of that stuff doesn't work because you can't really physically enforce it; it's an intellectual barrier which due to the way we can simply talk to each other as humans is super easy to circumvent. This was tried with export controls, but that didn't actually work for the information itself; only for commercial products.
This will not work for many reasons, most importantly:
- Key escrow or government-enabled crypto doesn't work
- Creating classes of encryption doesn't work (Excluding a group and not allowing them to use the same crypto as another group)
- If someone is going to do something unlawful, they will use something else that isn't accessible by the government; take away phone encryption and they will simply use something else
Unless those points are solved, the whole 'should we allow it' discussion is pointless anyway.
Tacking on to that: most of that stuff doesn't work because you can't really physically enforce it; it's an intellectual barrier which due to the way we can simply talk to each other as humans is super easy to circumvent. This was tried with export controls, but that didn't actually work for the information itself; only for commercial products.