I think this article misses the most obvious point. Encryption is widely available for free and in the open. It&#x27;s not about listing the devices or code they might not trust, if there&#x27;s even one that they do trust, then you can backdoor everything else and it won&#x27;t matter.<p>Why do they think they can put the Genie back in the bottle? The answer is they know that they can&#x27;t, the backdoor only effects the people who don&#x27;t care they are being tracked. It&#x27;s not for terrorists, it&#x27;s for people who carry smartphones. Which is almost everyone, so good enough for them. But the argument is absolutely nothing to do with &quot;preventing terrorism&quot;.