[justin66]

> encryption is a unbreakable lock that can serve to perfectly hide valuable criminal evidence. Such a thing wasn't possible when our laws were written and has never before been possible in the physical world.

Uh... what? There is plenty in the law concerning modern digital encryption. Ciphers have been around for thousands of years. If by "our laws" you mean the constitution, Benjamin Franklin apparently didn't think encryption was worth restricting during the constitutional convention, and that's not because he did not know about it.

> Its existence has potential to be a huge shift in how we enforce the law. Regardless of our views on encryption, we need to have a conversation about that shift. Refusing to have that discussion is likely a quicker path to things like government enforced backdoors than if we engaged with government and law enforcement on possible alternatives

You're acting like this is a new debate, but this is something DOJ has been on about for a long time. If the past is any guide we'll certainly "have a conversation" about it when the DOJ begins attempting to put people using or providing forms of encryption they don't like into prison, just like they tried to do 30 years ago.