An idle musing
What if a company's contract with its customers explicitly said the company would supply a secure encrypted facility without back doors, and that any failure by the company to provide this would automatically lead to the company ceasing service immediately, and that not doing so meant that every customer was entitled to £1 million compensation, thus bankrupting the company so it couldn't continue? How would the courts deal with that?
I'm inspired by Peter Watts' Scorched-Earth Society. (Warning: PDF)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
