There’s been an increasing call in recent weeks and months for encryption to have government ‘backdoors’ put into them. This is a bad idea. No really, it’s an incredibly bad idea. Even if we took the assumption that it is a push that’s made with only the purest of intentions, and the government universal key is kept 100% safe and secure and never leaked or misused, it’s still a really, unbelievably, stupid idea.
Agree. I come from a country (India) where the current ruling government has gone out of its way to misuse laws meant to counter terrorism (UAPA) and used it against activists, lawyers, professors, and students merely for dissenting and peacefully protesting. People have been & are being jailed for years without charges just because the Modi regime wants to muzzle them.
Don’t trust any government because the best govt can be replaced by a dictatorship and then where’ll you be. Every law should be examined for how it can be misused (because it will be) and safeguards put in place to prevent it.