Re: It's about surveilling everyone? This does not matter
just questioning the motives of the backdoor supporters makes it much too easy for them to paint you as a paranoid lunatic or move the debate to a pseudo moral level of good vs. evil.
But even IF every proponent of such a scheme might hold only the sincerest of intentiions for advancing the public well-being by helping law enforcement against the commonly agreed-upon really bad guys - secret government backdoors to encryption do not work also in this best-case scenario.
So intentions do not really matter here...
Law of mathematics/physics cannot be overruled by law of justice.
Just as you cannot pass laws to change gravity, you cannot pass laws to enforce decryption in the middle of an end-to-end encrypted data transfer.
The only alternative is to force companies by law to roll out defective encryption that opens all communication, mail, bank accounts, etc. to criminals.
Which government official wants to explain why that might be a good trade-off?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
