Lawmakers: put back doors in end to end encryption.
Tech sector: we can’t.
Lawmakers: think of the children.
Tech sector: it’s math, if we weaken the tech, nothing is private.
Lawmakers: yes, or leave the market.
Tech sector: ok.
This has been playing out since the Clinton administration and the idea there, which failed was key escrow. Key escrow still isn’t a solution becase the code is, now, open source.
The lawmakers want the public to have less privilege than the criminals, or they want the entire population to act as criminals by using freely available software. This shows no forethought.