There is an unarguable downside to unbreakable encryption.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The arc of technology is in the direction of unbreakable encryption, and no laws are going to get in the way of that reality.
It's very hard to keep an uncrackable encryption if you share it with the government.
The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.
Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!
I love strong encryption. It protects us in so many ways from bad people. But it takes us to a place - absolute privacy - that we have not been to before.
In some ways, you can think of end-to-end encryption as honoring what the past looked like.
I am not convinced that lack of encryption is the primary problem. The problem with the Internet is that it is meant for communications among non-friends.
You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.
Encryption threatens to lead all of us to a very dark place.
Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.