[kyboren]

They don't seem to want to outlaw encryption, but rather force service providers to always be in the middle of their users.

Of course, terrorists, child pornographers, moderately-intelligent criminals in general, foreign-made and/or open-source software users, etc. would all be unaffected. It's everyone else who would be thrown under the bus.

The major implication of this obvious prediction is that it's Feinstein and Burr's intended result. They know they can't stop the real baddies (along with a way larger number of regular people) from using good crypto. They just hope they're not too late to stop the masses, too.