It's not like companies have a choice. If they have a key in their possession and law enforcement gets an order for it, they have to provide it.
I use BitLocker on my Windows box without uploading the keys. I don't even have it connected to a Microsoft account. This isn't a requirement.
Well at least you got that part correct. Do you just not know about security researchers? Or even bug bounty programs?
Why are you even on this forum? Doesn't seem like you know much about technology
Probably not now but not something unimaginable in some future.
However, since Windows can still run on user-controlled hardware (non-secure boot or VMs), I guess this kind of behavior could be checked for by intercepting communications before TLS encryption.
> If they have a key in their possession [...]
So they do have a choice.
Regarding the article's Apple example:
> The FBI eventually found a third party to break into the phone, but the tension between privacy and security remains unresolved.
This is actually quite resolved.
- Tech companies in the US are free to write secure encryption technologies without backdoors.
- Government is free to try to break it when they have valid legal authority.
- Tech companies are obligated to turn over information in their possession when given a legal warrant signed by a judge based on probable cause that a crime has occurred.
- Tech companies are not required to help hack into systems on the government's behalf.
As far as I'm concerned, in the US things are perfectly resolved, and quite well I think. It's the government and fear-mongers who constantly try to "unresolve" things.