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Law enforcement has a variety of ways with which it can gather evidence. Ignoring the internet and tech world entirely, there are plenty of criminals who are clever enough to cover their tracks sufficiently so there is no way that evidence can be brought against them.

I don't see why the law should require that all services should be built with wiretap points. If a user of a service wishes to ensure perfect secrecy, and a service allows that use case (ideally by never seeing the user's cleartext or keys), I see no reason why the law should be allowed to interfere and require that the service be changed to disallow that.

Sure, that might make law enforcement's job harder in that case, but too bad. Catching a few extra criminals here and there is not a good reason to weaken the possibility of privacy for the rest of us.




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