Yes I don't need explaining that encryption is maths and letters can be encrypted. That is pretty obvious. (Postal inspectors the world over would assume evide

Yes I don't need explaining that encryption is maths and letters can be encrypted. That is pretty obvious. (Postal inspectors the world over would assume evidence of a crime.) > No, it is on the people who want new powers to justify them. The exact point I am getting at is that the governments who want these things are seeking to protect the power they have, not expand it. Encrypted communications are eating away at the power to inspect communications they already have, that we have been happy to grant them (that is the social contract I am talking about; it has existed for as long as postal services have). It's a very American thing to assume that government in general is always acting in bad faith, I guess.