Comment by RHSeeger
21 days ago
> The prior comment says encryption saves lives and that is accepted without question, but the idea that empowering law enforcement saves lives is met with a request for evidence. Why did you not reply to both claims the same way?
Even ignoring saving lives... encryption is how the entirety of societal interactions online work. Without it, we would not have _most_ of the things we rely on online, which is a large portion of things we rely on overall.
Saying that encryption is necessary for modern life is pretty much like saying food is necessary for modern life. Is it possible to live without it? Sure, but only by changing everything about modern life; for the worse.
Maybe I didn't make this clear enough prior. No one is arguing to completely remove encryption from modern life. I was criticizing how these issues are discussed. You are making an entirely different type of argument and therefore I have no problem with what you are saying here.