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I am willing to bet that the overwhelming response from tech to "build a back door into every internet user's E2EE communication globally for us to use" is going to be a big fat "No". The UK market isn't big enough to be making these kinds of demands.
The reaction is more likely 'It's still impossible. Just like we told you all the other times. Idiots.'
It's technically not impossible, it would just get rid if the entire point of E2EE, which is mentioned in the open response from WhatsApp, Signal, and others:
...this would make E2EE effectively meaningless, because no amount of encryption will protect against getting scanned at the entrance and exit.
And then some incompetent contractor will put the backdoor key onto their GitHub and completely destroy everyone’s privacy
Yeah exactly, it's very, very stupid and not something any service that actually bothered to enable E2EE in the first place would ever seriously consider.
AND it would probably break laws in other countries that actually value privacy or security. It's not like they'd be making a UK-only client for every fucking app or device that uses encrypted communications