Even if the state is completely trustworthy, has zero potential criminals in its ranks and always acts with good intentions, it's not enough. There is repeated

Even if the state is completely trustworthy, has zero potential criminals in its ranks and always acts with good intentions, it's not enough. There is repeated proof, ad nauseum, that governments are incapable of consistently protecting their data from hackers. So if a state has access to backdoors it's a matter of when, not if, that access will be captured by criminals and enemy states. I work in a small company where I honestly believe everyone is trustworthy. Still it is a good thing that our users' passwords are hashed and none of our staff can decode them. It's a tragic example of motivated reasoning that the head of the Department of Justice doesn't get that.