That may be the case in Australia at least. From [0]: "if an agency were undertaking an investigation into an act of terrorism and a provider was capable of r

That may be the case in Australia at least. From [0]: "if an agency were undertaking an investigation into an act of terrorism and a provider was capable of removing encryption from the device of a terrorism suspect without weakening other devices in the market then the provider could be compelled under a technical assistance notice to provide help to the agency by removing the electronic protection" As for the US, I wouldn't be surprised if the government has sought to achieve something like this using the All Writs Act[1]. However, in the recent case of Facebook helping the FBI with a targeted use of a vulnerability[2], it seems that they cooperated voluntarily, even paying a third party contractor to help. [0] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3460071/encryption-has-the-government-stuck-to-its-no-backdoors-pledge.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/3460071/encryption-has... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Writs_Act#Application_to_electronic_devices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Writs_Act#Application_to_e... [2] https://gizmodo.com/report-facebook-helped-the-fbi-exploit-vulnerability-i-1843988377 https://gizmodo.com/report-facebook-helped-the-fbi-exploit-v...