[kafrofrite]

My two cents reg. this.

Creating backdoors that allow encryption schemes to be subverted is _fundamentally_ going to cause harm on the internet, and eventually fail the weakest users/those that need privacy/security the most.

A mechanism that can subvert cryptographic protocols can be used by any party, including oppressive regimes, private entities etc. that have the resources/will/knowledge to use the backdoor etc. Backdoors harm both the trust on the web (which can have an impact on economic transactions among many others) and the people that need security/privacy the most. In the meantime, criminals will wise up and move their operations elsewhere where no backdoors exist.

We basically end up with a broken internet, we are putting people in harm's way and the criminals we are targeting are probably updating their OPSEC/MO not to rely on E2EE.