The government should not be so concerned with surveilling the citizens for the sake surveillance itself. It should deal with probable cause.
People use encryption in their deices not because they are really doing anything wrong (however with all the over-regulation today it is nearly impossible not to unknowingly), they encrypt because they now know they are being watched and what they do is none of the government's, nor anyone else's, business!
Getting past encryption is still up to the courts and legal process, not the manufacturer of the digital devices. m/t
As encryption spreads, U.S. grapples with clash between privacy, security - The Washington Post
By Ellen Nakashima and Barton Gellman April 10, 2015
For months, federal law enforcement agencies and industry have been deadlocked on a highly contentious issue: Should tech companies be obliged to guarantee government access to encrypted data on smartphones and other digital devices, and is that even possible without compromising the security of law-abiding customers?
Recently, the head of the National Security Agency provided a rare hint of what some U.S. officials think might be a technical solution. Why not, suggested Adm. Michael S. Rogers, require technology companies to create a digital key that could open any smartphone or other locked device to obtain text messages or photos, but divide the key into pieces so that no one person or agency alone could decide to use it?
“I don’t want a back door,” Rogers, the director of the nation’s top electronic spy agency, said during a speech at Princeton University, using a tech industry term for covert measures to bypass device security. “I want a front door. And I want the front door to have multiple locks. Big locks.”
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