Top Democratic senator will seek legislation to 'pierce' encryption

They don't seem to want to outlaw encryption, but rather force service providers to always be in the middle of their users.

Of course, terrorists, child pornographers, moderately-intelligent criminals in general, foreign-made and/or open-source software users, etc. would all be unaffected. It's everyone else who would be thrown under the bus.

The major implication of this obvious prediction is that it's Feinstein and Burr's intended result. They know they can't stop the real baddies (along with a way larger number of regular people) from using good crypto. They just hope they're not too late to stop the masses, too.

Outlawing encryption in impractical for a whole number of reasons. But what the government wants is a situation where encryption is only available to sophisticated users. That means no default encryption on phones or apps, for example.