Matthew GreenIt is remarkable to think that only in the past 15-20 years have we moved most of our private communications to digital channels with centralized storage & the processing power to perform bulk scanning. Coincidentally that’s nearly as long as encrypted messaging has been around.
Many folks in law enforcement and politics seem genuinely confused about the popularity of end-to-end encrypted messaging, like we all just decided to become anarchists or something. That’s not at all the dynamic we’re seeing here. The entire basis of our communications infrastructure shifted in a direction that’s inimical to privacy; encryption is the obvious solution.
Eric Hustvedt@matthew_d_green law enforcement has looked upon the shifting of communication to discoverable media as a way to replace human intelligence. I remember jokes about meetings of <insert group here> consisting mostly of undercover feds. Sadly, now that law enforcement has seen an easier path, they don’t want to do the hard work anymore.