> However secure encryption that can be accessed by warrant is quite doable and affordable.
It’s doable and affordable. It’s also easy and cheap to build systems that cannot be accessed by the authorities. The really bad guys will go for those systems. Your neighborhood child-porn guy probably won’t get the inaccessible systems. But the large porn ring, and ISIS, and drug cartels will. As will foreign businesses that don’t trust the US government and think they will help US businesses (just like their government would them).
Yes again. How sure can they be that ‘back alley’ encryption is secure? LOL! it could be a scam by the authorities or by the author.
I think the US versions will be the ‘best’. The Fourth Amendment standard is superior to others IMO.
Other nations may have encryption standards that are equal- however NO nation wants encryption that debilitates it’s justice system (some may provide it only for foreign use).
Criminals will do criminal things for criminal reasons whatever the law. The important thing is to provide a satisfactory legal product for general consumers.