Not really, because the proposals aren&#x27;t to go to no encryption but to go to government-backdoored encryption. To an observer you&#x27;ve still just a random stream of bits until someone tries to decrypt it with the backdoor key. Pretty easy to hide in unless we&#x27;re monitoring <i>every</i> message.<p>And terrorists would be smart - they&#x27;d employ non-backdoored encryption, hide that in &quot;legit&quot; communications, and encrypt that with the proper back-doored government encryption. They&#x27;d appear to be a totally normal snapchat user, or whatever.<p>If we actually meant to give up all encryption, card-kiddies would destroy civilization in three weeks.