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It's not like LE hasn't had its own fair share of power abuse.

But regardless, I think you're missing that for LE to obtain those keys with a warrant, we must entrust them to two private multinationals without any court order. And by trusting those two companies, it's not only included trusting their board but also their protection from hackers and rogue employees. For example, Google already had an incident of an employee tapping a minor's account and getting personal information: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/14/google-engineer-spying-fire...

(This is, of course, assuming the encryption actually works as announced. Personally, I don't trust it)