This idea of her's scares me. There is mathematically no way to allow the government access to encrypted documents without potentially allowing bad actors acces

This idea of her's scares me. There is mathematically no way to allow the government access to encrypted documents without potentially allowing bad actors access to them. It's math, you can't just change math because you will it. And even if you could somehow get encryption that maintains security and allows government investigation, there is no stoping people from just using software written outside the law. And that is assuming that you don't consider the government itself or any person who works for it as a potential bad actor. That whole idea is all sorts of bad. It makes law abiding citizens less safe while doing almost nothing for our security.