They make all the developers an offer they can't refuse... I believe even Signal which is supposed to be secure has a bit of code that is not open source.
I'm not at all surprised that authoritarian politicians would want features like this. From a technical perspective, though, I'm curious about how they would go about implementing them. Would they integrate backdoors into widely used apps with camera access, like WhatsApp? Or would they rely on exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in operating systems?
https://gizmodo.com/france-bill-allows-police-access-phones-camera-gps-1850609772
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