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The phone companies store content for FBI backdoors in plaintext on their servers. Compromising Apple/Google servers would require attacker to also know encryption backdoor. RCS (Diffie Helman key exchange) can fake end to end encryption through man in the middle (ISP/Google/Apple). Database access to the party would have everything needed for plaintext retrieval, because fake keys would need to be stored along with users.


no known precedent in major democracies

US already has laws that make it treason to leak any access given to US federal government, which may or may not share it with local police.