There’s been an increasing call in recent weeks and months for encryption to have government ‘backdoors’ put into them. This is a bad idea. No really, it’s an incredibly bad idea. Even if we took the assumption that it is a push that’s made with only the purest of intentions, and the government universal key is kept 100% safe and secure and never leaked or misused, it’s still a really, unbelievably, stupid idea.
Don’t forget the ‘think of the children’ crowd who simultaneously pass policies that make kids starve. Whenever you hear those two justifications given for why a policy needs to be implemented you have to read it at least twice as hard, because they’re often used as cover to pass some of the most draconian shit.