Ah, demonstrating yet again how insane it is that we hand so much power to people who know so little about the domains they control (and worse, seem to do little to change their lack of understanding). Will bills like this spur people into action to change how the government operates? I suspect at the very least, this will pointlessly cost technology companies millions as they desperately try to counteract the bill.

What would we do if this passed? I suppose I would winnow and chaff the hell out of my data, sending literally 42 gigabytes of garbage bytes for every one-kilobyte file. That way, if somebody wants to decrypt it, they will at least have to sift through tons and tons of garbage to do so.