The NSA Wants a Skeleton Key to Everyone's Encrypted Data

If the executive agencies have their way, the NSA will have a record of every lock combination in use by every company-a skeleton key, if you will, to gain access to your digital home, papers, effects, and aspects of your person without warrant or probable cause-effectively mandating that companies hand over skeleton keys to the locks that they provide to their users, at any time: what they call "exceptional access."

This is the Trojan horse the NSA means to use to gain access to your private data even when it is encrypted.