On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 09:41:21 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'US Attorney General William Barr today launched a new front in the feds' ongoing fight against consumer encryption, railing against the common security practice and lamenting the "victims" in its wake.'
Something not mentioned in that report <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/23/us_encryption_backdoor/>: “We are not talking about protecting the nation’s nuclear launch codes,” Barr told the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University. “Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations. We are talking about consumer products and services such as messaging, smart phones, email, and voice and data applications.” In other words, big business can be trusted with strong encryption, ordinary people can’t.