[eightysixfour]

> But regardless of what reasoning I could provide in behalf of the opposing side, my personal desire is that all governments and all courts to go fuck themself when it is about providing users data. I truly make no exceptions for that, it doesn't make me sympathetic if a user allegedly distributes child porn in a private conversation, or if he is a terrorist and disclosed a location of a nuclear bomb to his partner. I mean it.

This is an interesting stance to me, because throughout modern history I'm not aware of any budiness/entity that did not have an obligation to turn over information as a result of a court order other than information under attorney client privilege. Encrypted data is actually the odd one out, other than not collecting information in the first place, in that most things can be compelled.

The only time I have an issue with the courts having power to order someone to hand over information is when those orders are done secretly. There must be accountability.