I don't think the thesis that a government will be able to do something will ultimately hold. I don't see how they can avoid "going dark" in a democracy.
we live in a world where the government can't even do much about illegal drug markets anyone can access by downloading a piece of software.
if they pass laws that mandate backdoor access and block software which doesn't conform more and more people will move to the dark networks.
and if they effectively block the dark networks (in the limit they will have to block all encrypted communications) then we will be living in a tyranny.
freedom is messy. accept that digital crime can only be solved when the criminal makes a tangible mistake. LLM's will be building profiles on criminals to help with identifying mistakes.
The problem that Matthew Green is calling out subtextually is that democracy is likely to disappoint nerds on this issue: a random voter in the country 10 years from now may very well not share your priors about this issue.
consider the implications of a government where setting up an encrypted network is a serious offense, or where detecting encrypted communications is routine. the average voter doesn't matter. if they are willing to go that far it's a tyranny and the average voter doesn't matter anyway because they spy on everyone and have LLM's profile everyone (in that context even if voting still happens it doesn't matter, they will nudge the voters however they wish due to the information asymmetry).
> democracy
Still?