Digital Security stupidity! The "back door to encryption" debate.

I have been listening and watching the idiotic idea that is being pushed by both government and law enforcement agencies that they need a back door to all encryption programs.

I am going to now add my 2 cents worth.

If we had a law enforcement agency for your local area who said that they needed keys and pass codes to all of your doors, safes and locks inside your home and your business.

Would you comply?

If they said they were going to keep them safe and secure in a central location and only certain people where allowed to access them.

Would you comply?

This is what law enforcement and government are trying to put forward regarding back doors to data encryption.   

So let's add a bit of semblance to this problem.

If the back door is managed by the FBI or other Law enforcement, what happens to their ability to access other nations encrypted data.   Who has access, at what level and what are the checks and balances that are going to be enforced.   
When it comes to the US there are not many countries that are going to trust them with their data.

If the back door is managed by the the manufacturer, what happens when a government or law enforcement entity requires access.

By having a central location, even an unknown one, makes them a primary target of digital criminals, nation states and hacktivists.   It would get exceedingly crowded around the digital location.   

To be effective from a security perspective the whole system would HAVE to be off line, in a secret location and also hard to find.   

Then you have the problem of who will know about it.   Both government and law enforcement would need teams of people who not only have access to the keys but access to the location.  

As you add people and contacts to the system the weaker the secret gets.

How do you protect those people who have access, are they going to be immune to kidnap, physical threats and intimidation.   Are they also going to be incorruptible?

Law enforcement and government departments constantly forget that the digital criminals are very clever.   For a payday like this they will also be very patient, focused as well as very well cashed up.

The payday for this hack would be in the billions of dollars.   It would lay the secrets of the world out in plain sight.

So how about we stop all this inane talk about back doors for law enforcement and government department.   How about you get on with your job of catching the bad guys using old fashion system like physical surveillance and human intelligence.