Most major government and similar control organs around the world regularly try to do this, have for decades.
And as it nears finalization, someone finally manages to convince them it’s not possible. Usually involving some kind of lock analogy, master keys, and how it’s impossible make a lockpick-proof one that you can still open. (Literally the only way to make a lock that can’t be be picked non-destructively, is to seal it with something like welding, epoxy, etc. Because if you can use a key, it can be picked, full stop. There is no “but what about …”. Same thing with encryption, if there is a backdoor, it will be found. )
Why the hell is the EU considering this, when a possible WW3 is on the horizon?
Most major government and similar control organs around the world regularly try to do this, have for decades.
And as it nears finalization, someone finally manages to convince them it’s not possible. Usually involving some kind of lock analogy, master keys, and how it’s impossible make a lockpick-proof one that you can still open. (Literally the only way to make a lock that can’t be be picked non-destructively, is to seal it with something like welding, epoxy, etc. Because if you can use a key, it can be picked, full stop. There is no “but what about …”. Same thing with encryption, if there is a backdoor, it will be found. )