I met a nice man who worked for a telco/DPI company that deploys its products in the Middle East. He raised a compelling argument: „Look, you folks are the ones that mandated backdoors in the telco equipment we produce, using the term ‚lawful intercept‘. And now you‘re surprised and upset when bad people use these same backdoors? You made us build it that way!“ It certainly is easier for officials in countries like Germany to think of the world as divided between „good“ places and „bad“ places, but it sure isn‘t that simple.