> We’ve also seen the ramifications of bad policies that tried to weaken security. In the 1990s, there was a concerted effort by certain outspoken law ...<p>Dillution of the message by polluting it with political nostalgia is annoying. Make your argument that it's pointless from a mathematical standpoint and help spelling it out, not from some guilt-trip by wrongs of the past.
I'm growing less sympathetic of the "it's impossible" argument against digital backdoors. We've known how to do it for a long time: just add a second signing key to every iPhone, and give it to the government.<p>Sure, this increases the risk that the key will be stolen by the bad guys. But that's also a problem with good solutions. On the hyper-paranoid end, there's something like the DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony[1]. On a more practical note, there's whatever Apple does with their current signing keys. After all, those don't seem to have been stolen and used at large so far.<p>Of course, this is still a terrible idea, mostly because governments are not often working in individuals' best interests. But it's far from "impossible" to meet the requirements being handed down by US.gov with only a reasonable level of risk.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/dnssec/root-signing-ceremony/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cloudflare.com/dnssec/root-signing-ceremony/</a>