Are Apple, Meta, and Signal saying “no” to the UK’s demand for secure-to-GCHQ backdoors in E2E purely to defend their margins? Of course not; they’re saying “th

Are Apple, Meta, and Signal saying “no” to the UK’s demand for secure-to-GCHQ backdoors in E2E purely to defend their margins? Of course not; they’re saying “the laws of mathematics trump the laws of the United Kingdom”. Apple isn’t promising to pull iMessage (a huge part of their platform lock-in!) from the UK because they want to avoid the expense of complying with this law. Even a cynic would say that they’d love to comply, if only there was a way. But they literally can’t.