[Cryptography] Police want encrypted radios

[John Gilmore]

I'm confused.  The top cops in the whole country say that every system
doing end to end encryption needs a back door so that someone with
"lawful access" can get access to it.  Do the cops' radios have
backdoors built in to them?

Suppose, for example, the FBI suspects the local cops are corrupt.
The FBI should be able to get a secret warrant from a federal court
that would tap the local cops' encrypted radios without *any* of the
local cops being able to know.  So where's the back door that can
crack those radios?  How could they be buying encrypted radios without
back doors, when it's against everything the top cops recommend for
the whole society?

Let me guess -- it's a case of "one rule for you and a different rule
for me".  Quite typical of cops.

	John