More Countries are Demanding Backdoors to Encrypted Apps

The document is an opinion piece critiquing government-driven surveillance measures and exceptional access, asserting that on-device end-to-end encryption can be bypassed through operating system hooks, client-side scanning, and see-what-you-see techniques. Citing CALEA, Apple’s proposed CSAM scanning, and the Greek wiretap scandal, it argues that such approaches enable end-run attacks around encryption and that legal or policy wins against backdoors may be undercut by OS-level capabilities. The author concludes that meaningful privacy requires relocating the security endpoint off-device to mitigate OS shimming and covert side channels.