[natas]

why does the government, any government, has a backdoor on anyone's phones to begin with?

[pluralmonad]

Terrorists, drugs, the children, future excuse for the panopticon.

[mikkupikku]

Wiretapping predates all of these sort of arguments. Wiretapping was invented at basically the same time that telephones themselves were and was underway for decades before the law even began to take note; the first major legal development in this regard was the Supreme Court saying cops could do it without a warrant in 1928 (they already had been the entire time.)