Yes well that's cute, but you seem to forget the other myriad of bad guys who will be jumping at the chance to setup water-tight criminal organisations with this new technology. The 1 /1M chance of being extorted for money might now become 1/10000. And the chance of the drug dealer setting up at your kid's school might go from 1/10 to 1/2.
Once the bad guys cotton onto the power of immunity this technology gives them, your world changes. You seem to think the only change will be positive. Why is this?

Person who is too ignorant to understand simple discussion resorts to name calling. Film at 11...

Maybe for you personally, but what about grandma up the road? or 99% of the people who have no clue how encryption really works? You know the people who make their password their birthdate, or their dog's name? The ones who write it down on a post it note next to the computer?
We have to accept that cryptography is a new paradigm security, one that can't be dealt with by quotes from the Bible or other 200 year old wise men.

Back doors don't make sense, but I don't any sane person is asking for that (eg in the Apple case the FBI was merely asking for the opportunity to brute force. This is not a "back door"). I do think the law needs to continue to function, and part of that is the ability to obtain information. Don't underestimate the power this will have to disrupt the balance, and the consequences it will bring.

Yeah but unfortunately for you society doesn't work like that. We have rules to maintain order, and one of those rules is that people don't get to do whatever they feel like.

You're going to have a hard time convincing anyone that cryptography that was only invented a few years ago is an "essential liberty".
And yes the cops should have the ability to break locks with a court order, that is a key foundation of a law enforcement.

What approaches are they then? Seriously, I'd love to hear what suggestions you have for dealing with a world of criminals who now have completely secure data and communications.

Every time some legal issue is raised in here, some retard throws out that stupid quote.
By your logic we should have no security ever then?
Or you lock your doors right? Oh wait, you've traded the liberty of freely opening and closing your door without a key for the security of trying to keep burglars out. You now deserve neither security nor liberty.
At some point we need rules, or the bad guys will kill you. Yes they will, no amount of playing Counter Strike will save you ass when the real bad guys come for you. And those rules need to be enforceable by someone. Someone who isn't you, because even the toughest man on the planet will still get raped by a well organised gang.
So once you accept that we need rules, and someone to enforce them, you are trading some liberty for security. If you don't accept this, then go live in a war zone were there is no rules and tell us how liberated you feel.

I see no issue with the logic of this comment. If it's that obvious to you, maybe you could explain your problem with it?

Er, because cryptography was not common place then. In the next few decades it will be trivial for everyone and everyone to hide in the shadows of encryption. That might sound cool because you think you're the baddest kid on the block, but I assure when the real bad guys use that to fuck you and your family over, you'll be first to cry that the govt aren't doing enough to save you.

Are you interested in living in a society with enforceable laws, or do you feel that strongly about technology that it must be allowed to be free regardless of any impact it has to that society?
Obtaining information is a key pillar of law enforcement, and for the first time in human history technology allows that to be shutdown. there's some huge risks to our way of life here, any government would be negligent not to address them.

The govt isn't a black box, and even if it were you can always vote it out.

Oh right, that's freedom right there...

Oh ok then. Ignore the facts, blame me instead...

Makes no difference, we're all fucked. Technology is now reaching a point where humans cannot compete with machines.
Your cell phone provider already has enough info to know everywhere you are at any point in time, who your friends and family are, who you call and how often. Google knows all your web habits, and what you hobbies are, and you bank knows every cent you spend, where and on what. And this info is freely bought and sold to marketing companies and other bad actors. It only takes one slip to connect a name to this data and your life is captured on record forever. We need to start preparing for a non-private reality, than try to hang onto any semblance of privacy we think we still have. Even as I type this some algorithm somewhere has already tied my writing style to all my other web aliases and is connecting me to my real identity.
Privacy is dead.

Depends on your version of quality of life. I find travel the most rewarding of experiences. It probably stems from when I was a kid and travelled a lot as part of my military family. I learnt early that a lot of other kids, who might have been better at sports or whatever had a limited view of the world because that's all they knew.
So it's not just raw cash, it's the opportunity to earn money AND learn new skills AND meet different people with different opinions AND travel to new and interesting places. I also find that as an employer, people who travel and get out of their comfort zone make better employees, even if you only get 18 months out of them.

I seem to recall reading something years ago about designing a (mostly) DC powered house, and 48V was the number they landed on too.
Since most things in your house are DC anyway (I have gas cooking and heating), and with most only needing circuits in the region of 10 metres or less, I can't remember why this didn't become a thing?
Surely it would make it a lot easier to switch to off-grid battery storage solutions if everything is DC?