Fine the companies and they don't have to do anything to the users. Any individuals who use encryption by their own means can be branded as terrorists for usin

Fine the companies and they don't have to do anything to the users. Any individuals who use encryption by their own means can be branded as terrorists for using a non-sanctified encryption system/service and imprisoned. All the ignorant people who have been taught encryption is only used by terrorists will buy it, no questions asked. Make supporting encryption without a government backdoor illegal. That same government backdoor could be abused by third parties. But the ones pushing for that either don't care about that or don't understand that. The government has many stupid people in it, but I don't think the NSA director is one of them. [0] He knows that third parties could use the backdoor, he simply doesn't care. Notice how this occurring in the USA and not some totalitarian country you refer to? People aren't afraid for absolutely no reason. They're afraid because a country founded on freedom is increasingly taking the game plans out of a totalitarian state play book. People are afraid if they don't fight back now they might not be able to fight back. [0] http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/23/nsa-director-defends-backdoors-into-technology-companies http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/23/nsa-director-...