For much of the last decade, technology companies have been in an uphill battle to save encryption, a battle that has seen an increasing number of skirmishes that tech companies often lose. Throughout this ongoing clash, governments across the world have been pushing to backdoor encryption in the name of combating child abuse and terrorism.
The battle has come to a head several times in recent years, including when the FBI demanded Apple assist in unlocking the encrypted work phone of one of the San Bernardino shooters in Dec. 2015, as well as after a shooting in Pensacola Florida in Dec. 2019. I don’t think you’d find a single person that is against helping law enforcement put actual criminals behind bars, but the collateral damage of these “anti-encryption” measures is simply too devastating to justify.
