[mikkei]

The most common sentence I keep hearing over the years is "I have nothing to hide". This is sad but that's the reality we live in. Whether people can trust the institutions, having an "official" backdoors to your devices makes it obviously easier to others individuals with actual bad intentions to exploit them.

[vladvasiliu]

That's true, but the issue is that people aren't technical enough to realize this. They're told "don't worry! only we, the good guys, have that access!". So, since the people are in a stance of default trust towards the institutions, it makes sense for them to believe this. Plus, why would some bad guy try to hack grandma's mailbox? She has nothing of interest there, anyway!