Horst Seehofer, Germany's federal interior minister, wants to require encryption companies to provide the government with plain text transcripts . One security expert says Facebook is already working on a way to make it happen.An anonymous reader quotes his remarks in Forbes:The article warns that by "sparking the idea of being able to silently harvest those decrypted conversations on the client side, Facebook is inadvertently telegraphing to anti-encryption governments that there are ways to bypass encryption while also bypassing the encryption debate."