Re: What is the point of a warrant?
Re:"The warrant will demand cleartext data. If you make it impossible, you are placing yourself deliberately on the wrong side of the law"
The warrant can demand whatever it wishes. If neither cleartext nor ciphertext exists, the court is out of luck. They can insist that you do the impossible all they like. It will not come to pass. A proper mechanism would absolutely ensure that the ISP and the server provider never had the means to produce cleartext under any circumstances. Everything they store and everything they ever had is encrypted on a key they never possessed.
Mandating that people expose, in advance, their private communications so that they be available for government inspection is, as far as I know, entirely contrary to any reasonable reading of the law and such a legal requirement ought to be beyond the reach of a single legislature, judiciary or executive. We are entitled to our private thoughts and committing them to storage does not somehow make them public property.
It happens that sometimes the state is beyond reason and will capture, imprison and torture the innocent. We are in such a time now. Having come to such a pass, it is time for good people to oppose it, with civil disobedience if need be. Those in power are not always right. In fact, it seems to me that they are wrong more often than not.
People running the apparatus of the state would have you believe that you serve them and that you must follow what they say no matter how outrageous. These are bad people and rather than following what they say we should be opposing them with a mind to removing them from power and prosecuting them once sanity returns.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
