[cyphar]

> Isn't this, "No need to force us to install a backdoor, we've already got one!"

Fundamentally there is no need for a backdoor for emails. The entire protocol results in plaintext being received on the server, and so there is no need to add a backdoor. Email isn't end-to-end encrypted -- you've always had to use PGP if you wanted that.

Lavabit had the same problem when the US sent and NSL that asked for the TLS keys of his server to decrypt the email traffic that Snowden had sent.