If backdoors legislation is passed, would there be any economic effect? Personally, I wouldn't be interested in doing anything more than "basic" stuff with my phone and would not feel compelled to upgrade phones so soon.
As for computing devices, aside from proprietary systems like Windows and Macs, do we not have reliable options that allow us to use uncompromised encryption?
Whats to stop app developers for embedding encryption packages or would they be forced to use compromised solutions?
Can you stop a person from building a secure line over a compromised medium, if that is even doable?
This is the reason (along with probably constitutional issues) I'm not terribly concerned about most of this sort of talk [0]. It seems to me that it'd be a temporary problem, mostly with proprietary systems, that would be resolved in a few years. Sort of like the encryption export issues in the 90s, and the OpenSSH project being hosted in Canada.
[0] Ok, I'm not concerned about it actually happening. The part of it that bothers me is the otherwise seemingly-sane individuals who agree with these backdoors. It's very difficult to discuss the issue with some of them because their interest in it is largely driven by emotions, specifically a desire for security and justice/revenge/control of criminal/terrorists/whatevers.
As for computing devices, aside from proprietary systems like Windows and Macs, do we not have reliable options that allow us to use uncompromised encryption?
Whats to stop app developers for embedding encryption packages or would they be forced to use compromised solutions?
Can you stop a person from building a secure line over a compromised medium, if that is even doable?