I think there are different counters that will resonate for different people:
You can oppose banning/weakening encryption because you believe encryption is an irreplaceable tool for security.
You can oppose banning encryption because you believe that would actually be an ineffective tactic for preventing crime.
You can oppose banning encryption because you believe such bans violate inherent civil liberties.
There's another one that's really hard for me to explain -- You can oppose banning encryption because you've read Shannon or have a general sense of how RC4 worked and it feels just gross to ban basic operations, like shuffling information in a particular way. It's a bit like banning addition, or like banning pig latin.
I hear rebuttals and debates around the first three, but I don't think there's an effective rebuttal to the last one, which is just a paradigm shift. It's like, "I don't support this because I do not understand information the way you do."
Maybe we should print copies of "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" and leave them in hotel rooms, like the Gideons do with Bibles.
You can oppose banning/weakening encryption because you believe encryption is an irreplaceable tool for security.
You can oppose banning encryption because you believe that would actually be an ineffective tactic for preventing crime.
You can oppose banning encryption because you believe such bans violate inherent civil liberties.
There's another one that's really hard for me to explain -- You can oppose banning encryption because you've read Shannon or have a general sense of how RC4 worked and it feels just gross to ban basic operations, like shuffling information in a particular way. It's a bit like banning addition, or like banning pig latin.
I hear rebuttals and debates around the first three, but I don't think there's an effective rebuttal to the last one, which is just a paradigm shift. It's like, "I don't support this because I do not understand information the way you do."
Maybe we should print copies of "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" and leave them in hotel rooms, like the Gideons do with Bibles.