Comment by ninalanyon
15 days ago
Surely any moderately sophisticated group of criminals can simply create there own end to end encryption apps. So even if the UK, or other governments, get there own way they will only et to see the content related to the less competent criminals. Perhaps it's still worth it to some.
As Encrochat/ANOM/Sky ECC show, not only is this possible, it actually happens.
Encrochat was almost certainly a honeypot:
> After the Dutch and Canadian police compromised their server in 2016, EncroChat turned into a popular alternative among criminals for its security-oriented services in 2017–2018. The founders and owners of EncroChat are not known. According to Dutch journalist Jan Meeus, a Dutch organized crime gang was involved and financed the developers.
Surely they can make their own apps, but whether or not Apple will let them install it has always been a point of contention.