And if the FBI wanted to better prevent crime, they&#x27;d also come to the better conclusion.<p>But any organization&#x27;s mission is power first, <i>then</i> protection of those under their power. After all, without power how can they do the protecting? (or so the narrative goes).<p>A backdoored cryptosystem is arbitrarily less secure for users, but only an epsilon less secure for whomever controls the keys. That epsilon can be engineered ever-lower, so the danger created by the existence of the backdoor remains invisible to the organizations pushing for it.