“The answer is likely that the meme is not actually unbreakable, and there is some other way (secret/classified) way of breaking into these systems.”
No, the answer is that not every company, device, and network is currently set up to be as secure as iPhone data is. There is nothing stopping them, the technology is freely available to all, but not all have adopted it yet. So the NSA is still able to collect and monitor plenty of data that is decryptable, for now. However, the writing is on the wall and they know that won’t be the case ten years from now, so they absolutely must get this legislation passed or they will be screwed until they get their hands on a working quantum computer.
I was thinking about the military ours, the Russians, the Chinese. NSA is military so I just do not buy that those militaries are all so far behind that they do not use something similar.
So unless you have some inside knowledge, you are just speculating in your answer. And if you do and then say something, you are in deep trouble. So it must remain speculation and opinion.
Legislation (??”this legislation”??) is not going to effect anything military at least not in other countries. It really does not matter. If it is electronic, then it is not secure and never will be. If you think that some piece of paper will secure your privacy, your data, your information that you just broadcast into the ether, you are kidding yourself.
This whole issue of keeping electronic information secure is simply a straw man for someone’s agenda. If you want to keep something private, keep it to yourself - fool proof, unless one plays the fool. Although, there was a story on Drudge about AIs reading people’s minds ...
Quantum computers likely already exist, but then if one does exist, we will be the last to know.