You may be radically underestimating the degree to which the Internet has made it possible for people who abuse children to share content. In some cases, these crimes truly couldn't be perpetrated without the anonymity of the Internet, and the existence of these clustered communities of pedophiles encourages further abuse/exploitation.

I love the Internet, and my career is in security. But we as a security/privacy/technology community truly need to look hard in the mirror about how we are allowing and perpetuating lifetime harms to children and women.

Terrorism exceptions, like San Bernardino, don't ring with as much impact as the CEP argument.

> terrorists, drug dealers, pedophiles, and organized crime

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...

Encryption or not, if "bad" people can access illegal content "good" people can too. It might take actual work instead of passively reviewing the private communications of every person innocent or otherwise, but it's not made suddenly impossible.