[mrtksn]

We really need to go back to days of police actually going through the trouble of investigating and catching criminals - at least in principle.

Now every government security agency dreams of having complete access to the communications of everyone so they don't go through the trouble of doing their job. First UK, now EU.

Although I'm generally closer to the EU mentality of trusting the governments more than the corporations, this aspiration of the governments is just too much even if the European governments were perfect(they are far from it).

IMHO these are good intentioned ideas by the people who are responsible of providing security, it's just that they are too narrow minded brainchild of incompetent bureaucrats.

"How easy would my job be if I was able to access the communications between terrorists/pedos/spies etc."

Yeah right, we all exist to make your job easier and that's the top priority over everything else.

[Hamcha]

My biggest problem with the whole mentality is that most high profile shootings are still being carried out with unsecured methods, e.g. the Paris shooting from 2015 was organized via bare SMS. If law enforcement can't catch criminals using the unsecured channels how can they argue at all that the encryption is to blame?