The original post: /r/privacy by /u/Realistic_Bee_5230 on 2025-04-20 19:08:02.

Please don’t downvote me into oblivion haha, but I as someone in the UK, and the whole thing with the UK gov and Apple going down, although I don’t agree with the way that it is happening, I won’t say that I disagree with the fact that law enforcement, if they have a warrant, should be able to decrypt devices and stuff, for the same reason, if they have a warrant, they can break into your house to do a search. I am on the privacy, paranoia scale here, using false or alt emails etc etc, using linux and andr0id (saving up from pixel so i can use G_OS) and more, so im firmly in the camp of more privacy, but I can’t find myself defending criminals etc by preventing decryption. Is there really no way to do this without preventing the wrong people accessing your stuff, or govs accessing your stuff without a warrant? Btw, im not all that well versed in law lol, so I may just not know things that govs can do other than trying to decrypt your phones, can they just put you in a slammer for refusing to comply or something?