It's funny, just a modicum of common sense should tell them that the biggest problem is the government themselves. There have been a number (to understate it) o

It's funny, just a modicum of common sense should tell them that the biggest problem is the government themselves. There have been a number (to understate it) of high profile cases of "gross predators" in Britain who were allowed to operate freely with the government fully aware of what they were doing and turning a blind eye to it or even protecting them. It's not that breaking encryption could not solve any crimes or help people (on the contrary it clearly could and if we had a perfect benevolent government that was immune to corruption and incompetence we may well want them to have a crypto backdoor). The problem is that governments have clearly and repeatedly demonstrated, by their actions, that they have no intention of using powers like this to help the common person or to better society. They use powers like this to protect and enrich the government and its friends.