[jacquesm]

That depends on what the guilty men are doing...

Because the one innocent is usually a defender, whereas the guilty men are usually the attackers and to give the attackers an effective advantage in an arms race is a risky thing with unknown and potentially devastating outcomes.

In my own life (the live video example listed elsewhere) it would have meant that we probably would have had everything that we have today anyway, only maybe a little bit (not even that much, I'm aware of one other individual who was working on a similar concept who contacted me after our release) later.

Video conferencing, live streams in the browser without plug ins and so on all would have happened, for sure. But at least the massive mountain of abuse cases would not rest partially on my shoulders. And because I've been confronted with the direct evidence of the results of my creation for me that link is easy to make. But if you work on secure communications software you are probably not aware of the consequences.