The Director General of the National Crime Agency and European Police Chiefs are calling for industry and governments to take urgent action to ensure public safety across technology platforms.
I’m not going to lie I thought this was a rare moment of police org stating that. It clearly is. It would be like them saying locked houses impead investigation and that they only want locks for car, houses, whatever to support a master key the police own.
It shows a clear lack of understanding of just how insecure that makes something and just how much trust in state would be needed for it to be even conscionable.
E2E encryption is the public protection measure.
I’m not going to lie I thought this was a rare moment of police org stating that. It clearly is. It would be like them saying locked houses impead investigation and that they only want locks for car, houses, whatever to support a master key the police own.
It shows a clear lack of understanding of just how insecure that makes something and just how much trust in state would be needed for it to be even conscionable.