&gt;IMO the entire goal of encryption tech should be to make the government incur significant costs for every invasion of privacy<p>The entire goal of encryption is to preserve the consent of whomever is using it.  Two people wish to speak privately and don&#x27;t consent to eavesdropping.  Unfortunately, due to engineering realities, only the next best thing is for eavesdroppers to incur linearized costs to violate that consent.  In effect this is theft of communication &#x2F; information.