alt Hacker News> Back in the day hackernews had some fire and resistance.
Most of the comments are fire and resistance, but they commonly take ragebait and run with the assumptions built-in to clickbait headlines.
> Too many tech workers decided to rollover for the government and that's why we are in this mess now.
I take it you've never worked at a company when law enforcement comes knocking for data?
The internet tough guy fantasy where you boldly refuse to provide the data doesn't last very long when you realize that it just means you're going to be crushed by the law and they're getting the data anyway.
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"Good" companies in the old days would ensure they don't have your data, so they don't have to give it to the police.
If you design it so you don't have access to the data, what can they do? I'm sure there's some cryptographic way to avoid Microsoft having direct access to the keys here.
That's not the point. Microsoft shouldn't be silently taking your encryption key in the first place. The law doesn't compel them to do that.
> I take it you've never worked at a company when law enforcement comes knocking for data?
The solution to that is to not have the data in the first place. You can't avoid the warrants for data if you collect it, so the next best thing is to not collect it in the first place.