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You're thinking too far. As someone who knows two people that worked for the Swiss government closely:
Don't worry about it. The whole deepstate Idea is absolutely ridiculous.
There is no big plan to weaken encryption or anything. There was probably a single prosecutor working on a case involving Telegram that saw his chance and took it.
Seriously, you should be a lot more worried about google or meta, not western democracies.
Unless you live in russia/china/iran/yourFavouriteDictatorship, then forget whatever I just said. But if you live there, what's happening in France isn't a Problem to you anymore since your government does it anyways lol
But yeah, I'm getting a not tired of the deepstate conspiracies. He broke the law, that's why he gets arrested, not because of some deepstate conspiracy
What are you on about?
When legislation aiming to restrict people's rights fails to pass, it is very common for legislators/governments to try again shortly thereafter, and then again, and again, until some version of it eventually does pass. With each revision, some wording might be replaced, or weak assurances added, or the most obvious targets changed to placate the loudest critics. It might be broken up in to several parts, to be proposed separately over time. But the overall goal remains the same. This practice is (part of) why vigilance and voting are so important in democracies.
There's nothing "deep state" about it. It's plainly visible, on the record, and easily verifiable.
This is an appeal to authority (please look it up) and a laughably weak one at that.
You obviously have not been keeping up with events surrounding this topic over the past 30 years.
This may not be a symptom of such a plan, but there very much is such a plan.
Exportation of PGP and similar "strong encryption" in the 90s was considered as exporting munitions by the DoD.
More recently you can take your pick.
Governments DO NOT like people having encryption that isn't backdoored. CSAM is literally the "but won't someone think of the children" justification they use, and while the goals may be admirable in this case, the potential harm of succeeding in their quest to ban consumer-accessible strong encryption seems pretty obvious to me.
As a bonus - anyone remember Truecrypt?
https://cointelegraph.com/news/rhodium-enterprises-bitcoin-usd-loan-bankruptcy
https://www.csoonline.com/article/547356/microsoft-subnet-encryption-canary-or-insecure-app-truecrypt-warning-says-use-microsoft-s-bitlocker.html