The Investigatory Powers Bill
The Meeting with Industry on Thursday is just to remind them of the The Investigatory Powers Bill section 217 which obliged ISPs, telcos and other communications providers to let the government know in advance of any new products and services being deployed and allow the government to demand "technical" changes to software and systems.( https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/30/investigatory_powers_act_backdoors/ )
so you can no longer trust any program or app that has been updated and you do not have the full source code for.
Terrorists with any tech knowledge will just start using home brewed encryption or will use multi levels of encryption encrypting an encrypted message multiple times with multiple keys makes exponentially harder for anyone wanting to unencrypt messages. (unless you have backdoor to the hardware that sent the message)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
