3x70: Swallowed up in Crimethink

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which encryption backdoors rear their ugly heads (party like it’s 1999!), Minority Report is not a manual, and:

• [00:00:00] Intro
• [00:01:19] The UK government demands that Apple put a back door in their end to end encryption. Apple are not prepared to do this, not surprisingly, and correctly. We dig into the reasoning behind this sort of decision, and what can be done about it
• [00:32:49] Stuart is having his life made harder by AI people. How annoying!
• [00:45:49] Outro

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In the pantheon of eyeroll inducing arguments that have been had on this podcast, this one might take the cake. The entire argument was based on a provably false premise. You know there’s easily available data on crime rates, at least in developed nations, right? They’ve been consistently falling since the 70s. The claim that increased communication correlates to increased criminality, therefore governments (and by extension, corporations) need backdoors into encryption is laughably false.

Also, if you spot me that this forum is representative of all society, the amount of communication online is clearly trending toward zero.