02-18-2016, 04:10 PM
(02-18-2016, 03:41 PM)Benton Wrote: But what are you giving up?
If you get arrested, the cops are going through your stuff. They'll go through email if it's relevant, they can take your DNA if it's relevant, they'll rifle through your porn stash, dig under your couch. They'll go through your phone, provided they can access it.
The worry is this will start a push towards mandating back doors. Once a back door is there then it starts creeping into proactive surveillance type things under patriot act type legislation. I am normally not a beware big brother type person, but this is a slow creep towards a place where the government will be able to get any info they want whenever they want. What we found out from the Snowden issue was through the NSA's secret courts they were able to basically get anything they wanted. Things like encryption are for combating those types of issues, but once a precedent is set it's hard to go backwards.
