Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a counterterrorism operation(Technology Review)

Posted Mar 28, 2021 19:29 UTC (Sun) by zlynx (guest, #2285)
In reply to: Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a counterterrorism operation(Technology Review) by ermo
Parent article: Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a counterterrorism operation (Technology Review)

> All of the above is my roundabout way of suggesting that security flaws should be fixed, no matter who exploits them. As a corollary, encryption/security should obviously not be weakened to support intelligence operations, since they're just as likely to exploited by enterprising criminal operations.

And intelligence operations and criminals are often tightly tied together. Need some off the books money? Criminals. Fake ID? Criminals. A little quid-pro-quo and your "warrants only intelligence loophole" becomes an organized crime loophole.