Encryption backdoors by definition mean everybody who wants it gets hands on your data. You can't make backdoors only the "good guys" can access.

And while, sure, adtech corpos maybe won't due to the bad PR, what about the Kremlin, criminal organizations, or your insane abusive ex?

Rather tragic that less-technical folks in positions of power can find this:

> You can't make backdoors only the "good guys" can access.

incomprehensible. I’m sure genuinely so, even.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair

I care a lot less about the KGB knowing the ins and outs of my body than my health insurer...

What can the Kremlin do that is worse than the tech bros? Leverage data to deliver people additive divisive content until it all boils over into the "real world" and splits society? Oh wait...

Pretty sure the Kremlin just murders folks that they have a problem with.

Or deciding where to send a drone attack to take out a political opponent

It kind of does. It's like "I want an all powerful regulatory agency that can impose rules by dictat, but I only want them to do this things I agree with"

That's just what a government is. The idea is you elect it democratically and bind it with a constitution.