[asimpletune]

I don't think people are any more pessimistic about back doors as they are about perpetual motion machines.

Let's pause to consider this. Math works, that's why even the NSA can't break encryption. I wouldn't want to tell you wrong and say that it's impossible, it's not, but it would take something like ten billion years to crack. Needless to say, there's a reason why they need a backdoor, and that's because math works.

However, if a backdoor were put into all electronic products, the strength of the encryption is now meaningless as any would-be attacker (government or otherwise) would just target the backdoor instead of trying to break the encryption. Why wait ten billion years for a computer to brute force the message when you could just find a flaw in something designed by the government?