But that's just it, and this is why techies often sound unreasonable: there absolutely is a well-defined system whereby the government can get into your home. And they do promise to be careful with that power. And they also promise to help protect you against other people's using that power. To most people, this whole debate sounds like we're saying everyone should have easy access to impossible to vaults of arbitrary size, which law enforcement can't access under any circumstances. In the physical world, hardly anyone (including me) would be in favor of such a thing. I's not hard to imagine abuses of these vaults that we wouldn't want to tolerate. If it's different in the digital world (and I tend to believe it is), the burden is on us to explain why.

Imagine the police response time to a black neighborhood where gun violence has just been reported. Now imagine the police don't have guns, cars, or any knowledge of the law because there is no black and white law. Now imagine you live in that black neighborhood. That black neighborhood is called the internet. And the government is trying to outlaw locking your door.