Read the attached, and consider that the existing access mechanisms would ALSO remain available to malicious actors.

They don’t want the architectural security holes to be bricked-up. It’s a bit like they fear that Apple & Meta are building on some sort of surveillance green-belt.

Quote RecordedFuture’s Alexander Martin:

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But my frustration with the phrase “back door” is how it misrepresents the British government’s intention. That intention is explicitly and intentionally to not create some kind of covert Top Secret capability to access encrypted data […] and to not do so because such a weakness could be abused by malicious actors. Instead, the point of TCNs is just to ensure that existing access methods remain available … as they were with iCloud up until November 2022.

Full article/argument/appeal, at LinkedIn