Comment by phatfish
2 hours ago
What does democracy have to do with electronic encryption? Democracy existed before computers.
There are legitimate reasons for governments to intercept information, with the correct oversight -- enforced legally in an "checks and balances" manner. The fact that there is a breakdown of trust between government and people won't be solved with more encryption.
A core tenet of Truecrypt + Veracrypt (developer guarantee) has always been no backdoors, even if requested by government.
If in a democratic society, the majority agrees that government should have backdoors (with the correct oversight). Then it follows that Veracrypt should be illegal as its use is not in alignment with the will of the majority.
I personally don't agree with the majority here but can you fault the logic?