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by slimsag 3729 days ago
Cool question, I was thinking of much the same last night.

But, politically, nothing can be done because encryption and decryption is purely technical -- there is no middle ground that I see.

From a technical perspective.., the solution is also just to give the keys away. Theoretically we could give all the private keys to "just one government agency" so that no middleman (e.g. a CDN, etc) can decrypt the data, but this still 100% trusts the government with all the data.