Damien

And she'll share that opinion with the majority of the public it seems. As with science they're aren't enough technology reporters who get to report on mainstream stories so instead these issues get presented to the public by political reporters who present it, as they're trained to do, as an a debate between two sides of equal weight.

Which means many people are under the impression that encryption can be unlocked 'only' for terrorists which they understandably support. It's the same line which politicians push as well and do so to technically illiterate interviewers who fail to challenge them. Not to mention privacy is not an issue the public seems to care much about - the government and many government bodies have easy access to our internet history, phone calls, communications and no one cares.

Someone needs to make the public case that encryption is the same for everyone. The same set of technologies that allow people to plot securely also protects the messages between you and your friends/family, protects your health records, protects your photos and protects your financial information. If you add a weakness for terrorists you add it for all of us.