The biggest issue here is that, not only would this be an extreme burden for all of us developers who implement encryption (I run a small-time cloud-hosting service and all of my customers’ files are securely encrypted with no way for even me to access them), it wouldn’t actually stop anything from happening. The…

For all we know the phone could have contained zilch. By the way, it contained absolutely zilch. Weakening encryption is not the answer here. The answer is better detective work, identifying threats in other ways, and protecting civil rights. After all, that’s the job of the US Government. Encryption is one way of…