It's
reassuring to see that at least some legislators are well-informed like
this. Otherwise, nothing has changed in this argument since the
encryption wars of the
1990s. The principle of subverting back doors is as old as the hills, as
is the blindness to the consequences.
The
workaround to the recent Salt Typhoon hacks - a downstream consequence
of what happens when lawful access is compromised - was to make a
recommendation to use ... strong encryption: