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This is what you get when you don't require a court to order the release of private information. This, and out of control law enforcement, that is.


All tech companies have provided an interface for the law enforcement. No need to verify warrants, no need to show warrants, as long as one is from the law enforcement.


Unfettered access without oversight as was acceptable during WWII in practice means LE is behaving as if they are fighters in a war. If they are not regular militia, then according to official US narrative they are insurgents.

Turns out the war on drugs was a war against the People.


Agreed, but it still baffles me that people want to give LE backdoors to encryption to "protect the children" and because "they have done nothing wrong".




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