A widespread public backdoor that affects all devices so law enforcement and anyone with the backdoor key can get in? Yeah, they are all over the place. I sus

A widespread public backdoor that affects all devices so law enforcement and anyone with the backdoor key can get in? Yeah, they are all over the place. I suspect a lot of stuff the NSA pumps out already has excellent backdoors. I think the only real way a government could encourage its citizenry to use CLEARNET (unencrypted comms) for everything would be to offer some sort of benefits if everything you did was easily observable by law enforcement. Again, the backdoor idea is flaunting arrogance in the face of the Right to Privacy and Unreasonable Search and Seizure, and I think the Senators have a lot of emotional issues to work through before they start commanding the tech sector to do anything. Nobody supports a backdoor, backdoors in software are not good, end up falling into the wrong hands, and have historically never prevented a single catastrophe -- I'd be happy if law enforcement revealed a time when they cracked encryption to find some sort of juicy plot, but alas, I have yet to read a single instance of the sort. If you add a backdoor to our software systems, you're effectively adding a spy camera into every device that uses that chip, and you are not in control of who has the key, despite your best efforts. "Don't worry, only I know the combination to my suitcase, it's quite alright if it exchanges 70000 hands" ... said nobody ever. Law Enforcement and Legislation need to target this realm with a completely different approach, otherwise we leave the back door to the castle completely unguarded and defenseless.