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by lern_too_spel
3068 days ago
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You act like encryption is the default state. It isn't. An officer with a warrant has access to your written records in your home and stored with third parties. Why is access to encrypted data magically different and somehow magically overreach where all previous access wasn't? |
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It wasn't the default state. Past tense. You're taking a very 1980's view. The world has moved on. Sure, there are some types of data that are not yet protected, but that's a deficiency which should be corrected with time.
>Why is access to encrypted data magically different
Nothing magic about it, but it's different for a couple of reasons.
First, because a smartphone is more like an extension of your brain than it is like a file cabinet.
Second, because in the old paper world you imagine (or pretend?) we still live in, the entities interested in accessing people's private data didn't have the internet, so they would have to by necessity go to one house at a time to get written records. Now, they do have the internet, and they can hoover up everything. And they do. "They" meaning not necessarily good guys. Sometimes there are rogue cops, or haven't you heard? Not to mention black hat hackers.
So, because of this extraordinary change in how data can be accessed in bulk, and the personal nature of devices, private data needs better protection. Not magic. Just different times, with different snooping tools, different data, and different devices. So much has changed, you might as well ask what hasn't changed.