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Yeah. But I disagree with the larger position it argues for. Like all "real world" analogies applied to digital concepts, there's a sort of impedance mismatch.

In the real world, resources are naturally constrained. It's usually impossible to read everyone's mail in real time and retroactively pull up the contents of a letter sent 3 years ago. This limitation vanishes with online communications. Encrypted messages can be stored indefinitely and later decrypted.

The super safe backdoor we build today could very easily be used by a tyrannical regime a decade from now to get dirt on everyone. We can dream up all sorts of technical solutions that allow for a backdoor, but make it really hard to abuse, but at the bottom, those solutions rely on the government obeying their own law.