Even more so--"It's like forcing everything sent by mail to be sent in a transparent envelope and then publishing in the news every route that mailmen take and the easiest points where to intercept them."

Laws dictating how to/not to encrypt things make news really quickly so it takes even takes out all the fun in security research.

But that's just it, and this is why techies often sound unreasonable: there absolutely is a well-defined system whereby the government can get into your home. And they do promise to be careful with that power. And they also promise to help protect you against other people's using that power. To most people, this whole debate sounds like we're saying everyone should have easy access to impossible to vaults of arbitrary size, which law enforcement can't access under any circumstances. In the physical world, hardly anyone (including me) would be in favor of such a thing. I's not hard to imagine abuses of these vaults that we wouldn't want to tolerate. If it's different in the digital world (and I tend to believe it is), the burden is on us to explain why.

Many people I've talked to think that's perfectly reasonable.