[schoen]

I think tptacek's views were already made pretty clear earlier in the thread and his meta point is something quite like

http://lesswrong.com/lw/gz/policy_debates_should_not_appear_...

It's fair to argue that he overstates the benefit of surveillance to law enforcement or that it wouldn't be bad if law enforcement got harder or more expensive in various ways or that it's unfortunate that law enforcement ever came to rely on electronic surveillance in the first place, but I think he made very clear that he did not support limits on encryption, which makes it kind of unfair to challenge him on that aspect. He has been saying that he wishes fellow opponents of crypto restrictions would be more sympathetic to the view that easy availability of crypto has some disadvantages to society, so maybe it would be more helpful to engage on that point. :-)