But a few people AFAIR head of FBI among them, argued for "gov" backdoor after device makers started to encrypt as default setting. Cynic might argue, that the fact it has not grown into federal law is proof that HW device encryption is already cracked ;-)

>No laws about backdoors here, but NSA has cracked pretty much all the encryption methods.
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>>If you are talking about tarnished rainbow table functions, yupp. And against determined targeted attack, again yupp. Encryption as standard way of life - might happen, but my optimistic estimates are known not to always have materialized ;-))
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>>But if backdoors are required by law,that should steer smart people into cracking careers: either for the gov or as pirates...