Bad idea of the week: The Washington Post's editorial board, in a widely circulated call for “compromise” on encryption, proposed that while our data should be off-limits to hackers and other bad actors, “perhaps Apple and Google could invent a kind of secure golden key” so that the good guys could get to it if necessary.
https://keybase.io/blog/2014-10-08/the-horror-of-a-secure-golden-key