<--- this is what I was going to say. ...Except that I would have added that it's already easy enough to catch the stupid criminals without breaking everybody'

<--- this is what I was going to say. ...Except that I would have added that it's already easy enough to catch the stupid criminals without breaking everybody's encryption...because they're stupid. Good old regular police work of the type that has been around for over a century will catch these people just as effectively. So you see: The whole "backdooring encryption" thing is useless for its stated purpose.