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This conversation needs to start at a point where we take the status quo of government, intelligence agency and private company operations into account, and not from an idealistic utopian perspective.
Companies or governments with unlimited budgets, zero morals and access to the worlds smartest hackers will always exist. I’m not being some kind of doomer, I’m being realistic.
I would personally like to see law enforcement and intelligence agencies double down on their use of these kinds of tools, but, you know, to catch drug traffickers, terrorists, illegal arms dealers, money launderers, actual criminals who want to harm people, or is that too much to ask?
If Trucker John is going to be arrested for posting something vaguely racist under a Twitter video where 5 guys are brutally murdering someone, why not also catch the actual criminals in the video?
I’m dead serious here. Let’s just accelerate. Make the internet and internet-connected devices defacto public property and allow full access to law enforcement. I’d rather have all this be regulated with oversight, than the alternative.
In my head, “normal“ CAs used by browsers for example are held to a high standard of digital trust. Whereas trust in the US military as a CA sort of implies blind faith. But I honestly don’t feel that I know enough about TLS to know why I should trust, say, digicert or identrust, more or less than the US military.