Governments can't seem to stop asking for secret backdoors

An opinion piece on the debate over end-to-end encryption argues that mandated backdoors are untenable and would be bypassed by criminals while harming ordinary users, urging industry adoption of open-source, client-side E2EE frameworks exemplified by Proton Mail. It references recent policy flashpoints (Apple’s UK stance on at-rest E2EE and Signal’s threat to quit Sweden) to illustrate the risks of government demands, concluding that resilient, transparent encryption should prevail and law enforcement should rely on traditional intelligence and policing rather than weakening crypto.