Why are the feds watching these conversations in the first place? Has a crime been committed? If they’re investigating a crime, surely there are more avenues of investigation than Facebook chats that didn’t even exist ten years ago. Whatever happened to good old fashioned police work? Seems like they just expect everyone’s chats to be handed to them on a silver platter when they ask for it.
I'm responding to this statement and showing how it is rather ignorant:
1. The police are either lazy or incompetent if they say they cannot trace criminals because of E2E secure chat.
As for the rest of your comments: The feds are watching criminals online because lots of crime is committed online. I do not think weakening encryption will help them in this pursuit.
>Whatever happened to good old fashioned police work?
That implies effort and people are lazy. "Hey, Mr Criminal, can you be so nice to use App X when you plan to commit your crime so our automated system can mail us when you are going to break the law and also set up an event in our calendar so we can come and arrest you. Please be nice, we can make each other lives easier if we work together. "
We then communicate over a secure messaging platform like Signal, Telegram, etc.
Knowing just that I communicated with one or more people, how you would conduct your investigation to "trace" the participants in this conversation?
The feds would be really put up to unravel this (and are on a daily basis), let alone the police.