&gt; It doesn&#x27;t do anybody any good if terrorists can move toward encrypted communication that no law enforcement agency can break into before or after. There must be some way. I don&#x27;t know enough about the technology, Martha, to be able to say what it is, but I have a lot of confidence in our tech experts.<p>It&#x27;s time politicians realized that it&#x27;s not a matter of technology, but a matter of crazy reality and bad political climate.<p>We live in age of three-letter agencies abusing their powers for god-knows-what reasons, dumb TSA employees publishing photos of &quot;TSA lock&quot; master keys on the Internet and Russian&#x2F;Chinese&#x2F;Nigerian hackers replacing NSA crypto backdoors with their own.<p>Potential usefulness of crypto backdoors is too large and communication technology is too advanced to contain such backdoors in trusted hands. Either we work to be damn sure that there are no known vulns and backdoors whatsoever, or there will be a backdoor for everybody and his dog. No technology can provide a Hollywood-style &quot;find and decrypt bad guys&quot; button devoid of nasty side-effects.<p>Not to mention that Paris terrorists used the uber-secure, NIST-certified DOUBLE-ROT13 for their cunning (i.e. f#$^&amp;n plaintext).