[jamesmadison66]

The discussion on this from the pro-encryption team has to move towards explaining it in terms of national security, as national security is the reasoning the anti-encryption group uses.

National security is a major trump card across parties and administration, and will have to be responded to versus ignored, as that's where the argument is coming from.

It's easy enough to explain that Russia has mathematicians, ISIS has mathematicians the same way they had chemical engineers for the oil fields, China/PLA has mathematicians, etc.

The same fear mongering that is allowing an anti-encryption argument to advance can be used to fear monger right back towards encryption and be based in truth: Russia and terrorists can access my chats.

For the pro-encryption crowd, we know this is actually feasible technically and the end result of backdoors. We just have to explain it on common ground, where the argument lives.