[rilita]

As fweespeech says here also, criminals will encrypt regardless of what is going on. The people the FBI is "after" are going to encrpyt, so fighting to make public systems store data and hand to the FBI when desired is pointless.

If the FBI isn't mining normal citizens data for loose connections to stuff that is none of their business, then their is no need for them to have access to the systems they want.

The only argument that could be made is that criminals are stupid and may not use proper encryption on their own, therefore we should watch what everyone is doing so that we can catch these particularly dumb criminals.

The goal of the FBI in all their statements is to try and convince the public that "only criminals need encryption; everyone else should let us watch everything they do." 1984 anyone?