Is there anything in your mind that says, Gee,
we have to. We have to allow law enforcement to get in?
Because what’s going on is.
Is just unacceptable. You know,
the interesting thing about encryption is that it cannot be secure
just for some people. ISIS and other terrorist groups,
they just push a button on an.
On an application like yours,
specifically yours, an application,
and it’s gone around the world like that.
Well, again,
this is the world of technology,
and it’s impossible to. To stop them at this point.
ISIS could come up with their own messaging solution
within a month or so if they wanted to,
because the. You mean create their own telegram?
Exactly. Since Paris,
Durov has been purging ISIS propaganda from Telegram,
but says if asked to unlock any private messages,
he would tell the authorities
that the encryption code makes it mathematically impossible,
using a similar argument as apple.
So you’re basically saying that even if you wanted to,
your hands are tied. Yes.
You can’t do it. We cannot.
So this is one of the great debates of our time.
Which is more important is the.
Is it more important to shut down this kind of terrorism
or preserve privacy? I’m personally, uh,
for the privacy side, but one thing that should be clear
is that you cannot make just one exception for law enforcement
without endangering, uh,
private communications of hundreds of millions people.
Because encryption is either secure, Or not