Big Brother, or risks. This is the paradigm.

For either we set up a total ban on encrypted communications, worldwide, or we will always fall back on such situations where criminals and terrorists use any convenient encryption tool they can put their hands on.

From carrier birds and invisible ink to Telegram confidential information has always found its ways. The only new parameter digital media brought is a potential formal way for the police and intelligence services to seize any information using it. Big Brother awaiting.

And while for years it has been steganography and hidden places such as Gmail's trash or drafts now it hoes through apps like Telegram. But if we enact on those apps tomorrow another technique will emerge, unless we globally opt for a total digital monitoring and outlaw any digital privacy.

I do not find this argument around digital espionage very healthy, as we are told the intelligence services are "struggling" whereas they are merely doing their job like they've always been. And infiltrating a digital network isn't harder than sending a mole in some dark cabaret or basement.

But with singling out apps that provide efficient privacy as "enemies of the State/Peace" or even "Terrorists-friendly" we are being sold the premises of that global and radical monitoring I was mentioning.