So, encryption is bad because our doo-gooder international police forces can't read the messages of the terrorists?<p>I find it hard to believe that someone this high up the totem-pole would not be able to come up with better arguments about why the government (especially the UK one) has lost the 'hearts and minds' of its constituents and what could be done about it when it comes to encryption.<p>If you make <i>everybody</i> a suspect without prior cause then people will start to behave as if they're under suspicion.<p>When in the past 'encrypted communications' probably counted as some kind of red flag the value of that flag has been diminished or even eradicated because the government has driven ordinary people to be worried about their conversations to the point that so many people use encryption now that just using encryption is no longer a signal.<p>So they're going to have to expend a ton of computing power on monitoring networks of ordinary people in order to catch a few miscreants. On the whole the only things they've achieved is that the haystack is now much much larger than it used to be and that people trust their governments less than ever before when it comes to privacy issues.<p>Well done! I'm curious what they'll come up with next, outlawing of encryption is probably high up on the agenda in at least a few countries.<p>The thinly veiled message to tech firms to give Europol and the likes unfettered access to un-encrypted messages will surely be received with open arms, I think all those companies whose logos featured prominently on Snowdens documents still remember those disclosures fondly.