There’s been an increasing call in recent weeks and months for encryption to have government ‘backdoors’ put into them. This is a bad idea. No really, it’s an incredibly bad idea. Even if we took the assumption that it is a push that’s made with only the purest of intentions, and the government universal key is kept 100% safe and secure and never leaked or misused, it’s still a really, unbelievably, stupid idea.
“If you can securely implement encryption that has a back door, then YOU implement it first, to show us how it’s done.”
Some amount of time later…
“Oh, you can’t / won’t do it? Oh. Then for all the reasons you can’t or won’t do it are all the reasons I can’t or won’t do it.”