It's nice to see the media digest and swallow this bull from the FBI & co without bothering to even chew it a little first. "Oh the FBI said something, IT MUST be true!".
All it requires is for someone to find that backdoor & its mechanism and that's it, they can exploit the backdoor designed for someone else for their own purposes. And if that someone doesn't have legitimate intentions, what then? Am I supposed to accept making my device that much less secure because the FBI or another state actor may one day decide I'm trouble? The chance of that backdoor being exploited by someone other than the FBI is considerably higher than the FBI ever using it themselves, and the FBI seem to be in lalaland on this.
All it requires is for someone to find that backdoor & its mechanism and that's it, they can exploit the backdoor designed for someone else for their own purposes. And if that someone doesn't have legitimate intentions, what then? Am I supposed to accept making my device that much less secure because the FBI or another state actor may one day decide I'm trouble? The chance of that backdoor being exploited by someone other than the FBI is considerably higher than the FBI ever using it themselves, and the FBI seem to be in lalaland on this.