The problem with this line of thinking is that the government is, of course, composed of... individual citizens.

I don't want them to be, they make themselves exempt.

It's bad. It's one of the causes that triggered the French Rebellion in 1793: one rule for them, one for us?

They do seem to think that way sometimes, don't they?

But the counter-argument here is: if the civilian E2E apps had also/already been backdoored, they'd be entirely out of options now.