The only reason it keeps popping up has to be that everyone is afraid to tell them: “Forcing encryption with a known backdoor, means no more online transactions”.
No more online shopping, streaming, stock trading/investing, etc. Everyone from their grandchildren to their boss would be yelling at them if they knew that those things would be at stake as well.
The secret of how to do strong encryption is out, since 1991. You can’t erase it from everyone’s minds. Criminals can not be stopped from using it by passing laws against it. Its only law-abiding people who will be made unsafe by that.
What happened in 1991?
I think he is referring to PGP being released.
Yeah it was a big milestone. Many related developments soon followed. It’s an interesting coincidence that linux was first released the same year. Strong end-to-end encryption has in common with free software that it’s taken an awfully long time for ordinary people to begin understanding that it’s important and worth the effort to use. Like free software, once it gets going it can’t be stopped.
Linus Torvalds published Linux
What about criminals with bad privacy practises?
No need to backdoor encryption then
True dat
