because terrorists that know about this (all of them) will somehow *not* go out of their way to use zero knowledge encryption systems that are already widely available when they become illegal? How would this prevent anything other than law-abiding citizens being kept from their privacy? Ugh.

Maybe I'm missing something here... but why wouldn't a criminal just use easily obtained "illegal" unbreakable crypto obtained from a friend in the U.S. or anywhere else in the world?

I can't agree more - if it's only for Verizon then it doesn't exist to me. If Moto wants to sell more phones, they'll stop doing this crap.