Harm Reduction for Cryptographic Backdoors

> LEAs have a legitimate need for targeted surveillance to investigate crime. This does not mean we should bow to every LEA wish, but we cannot dismiss them wholesale either.

"LEAs" have violated privacy of citizens en masse and we are back to political procecutions in free democracies. Winning back the needed trust takes time and effort. We would need to see a lot of changes here. Whistleblowers don't have the needed protection, even the justiciary made political judgments. It is not safe to give executive government any more powers that were constantly expanded with the war on terror anyway while we saw falling crime rates throughout most democracies.

You could outlaw encryption, which won't be successful and create problems anologous to the war on drugs as you would drive every pricacy concious citizen underground and criminalize them. This would have severe negative repercussions on overall security.

We also saw cases of child traffiking in government circles which I doubt would have been tackled by law enforcement, so I have my doubts about the motivations to weaken encryption.

There is no case for backdoors in my opinion and certainly not from a security perspective.