It sounds like we agree on the problem. If you require backdoors on devices/software, that can circumvent encryption in bulk, without the relatively expensive a

It sounds like we agree on the problem. If you require backdoors on devices/software, that can circumvent encryption in bulk, without the relatively expensive and time-consuming steps of physically planting bugs or similar on specific targets, it will inevitably be used for dragnet surveillance. At least that's what happened almost every time so far.