Perhaps. Either way my larger concern is the message being sent to law enforcement by the higher ups. I mentioned this in another comment. Plus the fact that

Perhaps. Either way my larger concern is the message being sent to law enforcement by the higher ups. I mentioned this in another comment. Plus the fact that terrorists will be the first to use other encryption tech. So, yeah, it is a waste of time and the reason can only be that our higher ups are misinformed. I don't see any good reason they would know all this and lie about it. So they can catch a few common criminals? So they can fail at catching the smart terrorists? It doesn't add up.