It's the usual short-sighted, first-order effects thinking we see so often in politics. Behaviour X is problematic; target a law at behaviour X; ergo "problem solved". But that's not the way it works. Laws can never directly address behaviour X. Instead, the law creates behaviour Y in the state apparatus; Y may be opposed to X, but it also has effects of its own; and the damage from Y may exceed the damage from X.

It can also be used by good (or at least inquisitive) people.

The back door isn't going to be built into super encrypted military stuff, but a lot of government traffic travels over commercial links, using commercial hardware and software.

Since this government backdoor is going to be leaked or hacked about 3.2 femtoseconds after it's introduced then every internal government memo, every cell phone/sms between a politician and their mistress or lobbyist and every conversation between lawyer and client is going to be on wikileaks.

We could finally have real democracy!

Are you taking about Season 1, crossing the fives?

Season 5 how Marlo arranges meets and pickups was a good example of extra security.

SPOILER ALERT

Marlo (the drug lord) sent picture messages of a clock to arrange meetings. The hour and minute hands corresponded to the letter and number axes of a common Baltimore map and the second hand tells what page. The dealers would look up the coordinates on a map to find out where to meet. The cops broke it because they had (illegal) wiretaps on everyone's phones, and they had illegally allocated lots of extra manpower to tail all of the suspected drug dealers around the clock.

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Moral of the story: If you're a CEO or drug lord, too many meetings will kill your business.