Re: This is all very good.....
You mean do more harm than they have already done without legally mandated backdoors? Successfully drawing the US into a land and air campaign that has lasted for over 15 years, cost many billions, killed many hundreds of thousands, and diminished the US both politically and economically has already created a lot of damage and instability.
Let's start by defining "outright de-stabilize" or a "lot of damage". Then explain how this can be prevented with back-doored comms being made available to law-enforcement (and anyone else who discovers or buys them).
Then explain how weakening everyone's digital security will prevent people with back-doored Iphones (which they will of course immediately stop using) from destabilizing the world further and creating a lot of damage.
It's not as easy as it looks and most of the arguments will not withstand scrutiny. We MIGHT catch a few more bad guys, but the good and bad guys will also have access to everything we do online, which is not a very good trade-off, IMHO.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
