Is it a fair conjecture that in some sense there's an issue with cryptographer's trying to push the field in terms of the efficacy and robustness of encryption forward while "the government"s continually work all manner of trickery to hamper these efforts in subtle and not-so-subtle but gag-ordered-enforced ways?
I feel like there's this constant ridiculous pushback on any digital product or protocol or service being air-tight cryptographically and implementationally speaking when they can basically already build air-tight cases via parallel construction with the help of the infinite resources available upon (often not even) receipt of a warrant?
Its very strange. The obsession is always on completely neutering/compromising the technology and never on actually doing the damn police work they are enpowered to approach laterally like they did before typewriters and telephones/wire-taps or bending the providions of constitutions they swore to protect and enforce until its a simulacrum of its original concept.
Like, it always comes across as they feel that their entire case is lost if they can only prove something 5 different ways instead of 6. It wouldn't be so problematic if humans weren't so human and law enforcement wasn't emphatically staffed by humans who are liable to abuse things to maximize their money, power, and prestige and have the absolute or qualified immunity to get away with it at least once regardless of how it damages the targets of their misconduct.
>Like, it always comes across as they feel that their entire case is lost if they can only prove something 5 different ways instead of 6.
There are a lot of crimes these days without a complainant. The sale and consumption of illegal drugs for instance. Surveillance can be very important in discovering the crime in the first place.
It's like asking someone to help you with your diet and then becoming upset when they invade your privacy by looking in your kitchen cupboards and fridge. We have in a sense brought this on ourselves by passing laws intended to protect us from ourselves.
Did anybody ask governments to “help with diet” though? It feels more like governments in their ever expanding power struggle decided diets needed to be fixed even though nobody complained about them and then decided that the ends justify any means.
I feel like there's this constant ridiculous pushback on any digital product or protocol or service being air-tight cryptographically and implementationally speaking when they can basically already build air-tight cases via parallel construction with the help of the infinite resources available upon (often not even) receipt of a warrant?
Its very strange. The obsession is always on completely neutering/compromising the technology and never on actually doing the damn police work they are enpowered to approach laterally like they did before typewriters and telephones/wire-taps or bending the providions of constitutions they swore to protect and enforce until its a simulacrum of its original concept.
Like, it always comes across as they feel that their entire case is lost if they can only prove something 5 different ways instead of 6. It wouldn't be so problematic if humans weren't so human and law enforcement wasn't emphatically staffed by humans who are liable to abuse things to maximize their money, power, and prestige and have the absolute or qualified immunity to get away with it at least once regardless of how it damages the targets of their misconduct.