When Bruce Schneier weighs in on the security implications of government actions, we should all pay attention:
We cannot build a backdoor that only works for a particular type of government, or only in the presence of a particular court order.
This is the person that coined the phrase “security theater” and he isn’t in the habit of making up unlikely stories to scare us. He is, however, very good at understanding real risks to security for people, businesses, and countries.