Encryption Ban Debate

borrowing from gun reasoning, if encryption is made a crime, then only criminals will use encryption.

if you outlaw encryption then don't only criminals have encryption?

"The moment the government of a country makes it illegal for chatting apps to use encryption, the criminals are just going to roll their own crypto."This is copied & pasted from anti-gun control arguments and is ignoring the excruciatingly obvious in exactly the same way.Sure, criminals don't obey the law. But the reason prohibiting "regular citizens" from doing something helps stop criminals from doing that thing is because they will stand out more and have fe

Encryption is either secure or it isn't. You can't have a middle ground. It's unfortunate that under rare, and very particular circumstances criminals can perhaps evade crimes because they have access encryption, but it's also unfortunate that they can get away with crimes because they have access to guns, knives, vaults, cars, basements, gasoline, matches, duck tape, chain saws, shovels, etc...Yet we don't cripple the effectiveness of these items for the sake of prev

The argument regarding general use of encryption for communication is that (a) law enforcement private keys would leak sooner or later, suddenly exposing everyone’s past communication, and that (b) criminals would just use “forbidden” encryption (“if x is outlawed, only outlaws will use x”).

Encryption can be used for bad things too I hope they ban it.

You can't make this stuff up. Ref:https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/06/05/criminalization-o...

Guns are controversial because they kill things and are thus a weapon. Encryption cannot kill anyone, if anything it is a shield. It’s also an infinitely replicable shield, and one that is omnipresent.I don’t think anyone believes they can ban it, but like tax evasion it’s probably going to be a nice excuse they can use to catch the people they don’t like that do use it. For the rest of us, don’t worry—they’ll make sure you’re always safe and no criminals would exploit your unencrypted commun

This.If we outlaw encryption, then only outlaws will have encryption.

If you outlaw encryption only outlaws will have encryption