There's this fantasy among politicians that it would somehow be possible to create cryptography with backdoors that only the good guys could use to catch the bad guys.
When mathematicians and cryptographers tell them that's not possible, they disregard the science and challenge scientists to nerd harder.
Their fantastic cryptography is such that there are good guys whom it protects but does not bind, alongside bad guys whom it binds but does not protect. I propose calling that conservative cryptography, after Frank Wilhoit's Law.
Wilhoit's observation is that "conservative thinking consists of one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
Mathematics and cryptography don't really distinguish between good and bad guys. Indeed, backdoors placed in cryptography are designed-in weaknesses that make everyone who uses it more vulnerable and prone to abuse by anyone who designs, learns or discovers the weaknesses.
What Wilhoit concluded about law holds true for cryptography as well: "[it] cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone."
So blong,