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>criminal empires True, you can’t stop math but you can try to police it. You can regulate consumer access. Doing so means one less “gone dark” area, which makes LE job easier. >security exploits To your point about low level criminals: Now that the cat is out of the bag, yes, surveillance worked way better when people didn’t know about it. Yes, more sophisticated criminals will try to employ their own encryption. If…
> Yes, which is why it is imperative to continually improve and audit such systems, including maybe removing such single points of failure as you noted, both from an insider threat perspective as well as from exploit discovery processes. Can you join me on a journey to build this hypothetical world to figure out how this addresses the Snowden leak? Let's imagine a world where every single server had a registered back…
Yes, it’s a difficult problem with social implications, and not simply technical challenges, as you noted.
Yes, Snowden shouldn’t have so easily been able to steal so much data. Apparently the IC has installed numerous checks and balances to help prevent another such insider threat.