@TheInformedOne
This whole debate is more a legal than technological one.
No. Mathematics is a fundamental science. And the strongest encryption operations (i.e., using an OTP) are incredibly easy, too. Anyone who thinks they can legislate against reality firmly plants themselves in one of the four categories I mentioned above (or worse).
cannot or will not comply because the data is encrypted, then they are in breach of request and should face consequences
If they weren't the ones who encrypted it, how do you expect them to comply?
If the law is written in such a way that your government can act like a police state and you don't like it, then try to get the laws changed.
As though opposing a police state were an easy task. As though this story isn't yet another example of how ardent some people are to move the laws in the opposite direction.
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