Do you realize how PRISM is the very reason that the government cannot be trusted?

>What percentage of communication in this country flows through either Apple, Google, Facebook, or Amazon?

You make it sound like data collection and snooping on innocent people is the whole point of it. If backdoors are required on communication that goes through Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon then nobody's going to use the communication on those services for illicit activity that the government would care about. They would use something else.

>But I recognize that there is a problem and that we should be open to talk about ways to fix that problem.

There is no talk to be had, because the entire idea is silly. If the US government can mandate backdoors then so will every other government. This would make everyone vulnerable.

Warrants aren’t losing their power, warrants are gaining power! Never before have you been able to issue a warrant to a phone company and get someone’s location in real time, to a tech company and get the copies of all their sent mail perfectly preserved, or to their bank or credit agency to get a record of nearly every transaction they have ever made. The rate at which new information available to law enforcement might be slowing down, but it is still increasing YoY even with encryption on the rise.

I do. And yet, there’s no other way to approach it.

You either protect everybody or you make the compliant vulnerable.