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“…we think that requiring exceptional access is unlikely to be as productive as law enforcement hopes it will be – at least when it comes to determined and motivated actors. Highly motivated actors, plagued by neither inattentiveness nor transaction cost concerns, will likely migrate to alternate systems, thereby diminishing our access to valuable metadata. If exceptional access is required, the principle effect will be on the average consumer and the smalltime criminal gang – with significant impacts in the form of degraded system security. There will be significantly less effect on high-value terrorist and criminal targets”

So what the FBI wants will end up with consumers and criminals as soft targets, but terrorists (determined and motivated actors) will move to other encryption and be beyond law enforcement’s reach.