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Originally Posted by Paul

You make the same mistake as the idiots requesting this.
It WILL NOT suddenly stop "terrorist plots, paedophile activity etc etc".
They will simply move on to using something else, all that will be affected is OUR privacy.

There is no "third way". The answer is as simple as its always been, leave it alone.

There’s already a third way IIRC it’s a criminal offence to not provide the police access to a secured device under s49 RIPA (or something like that) it carries a two year custodial sentence but this is very rarely used.

Surely a simple action would just to make it an automatic ten year sentence