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One speaker elaborated on the implications of these debates, emphasizing that in the near future, monitoring communications—including crucial financial transactions—may become impossible without compromising privacy. The concern is that even if encryption backdoors are implemented, honest individuals' privacy will be exposed, while malicious users will adopt layered, cryptography-free techniques to evade detection. This shift could herald a society where traditional forms of transparency and oversight used by law enforcement are no longer feasible, leading to a fundamental change in societal security and privacy dynamics.