[userbinator]

More generally, unsolvable online crime is arguably an unavoidable cost of online privacy and freedom.

No kidding. A world with zero crime can be nothing but an authoritarian dystopia.

Just as with encryption, having backdoors for some good guys (cops) puts other good guys (dissidents) at risk from bad guys (repressive regimes).

On the other hand, encryption can also be used by companies to oppress and control their users ("walled gardens", DRM, and the like.)

Maybe the underlying philosophy here is that absolutism is never good, regardless of intention...