All these 'tricksy circumventions' are offered up as an alternative to legislating to deliberately and systematically perforate encryption — i.e. by mandating backdoors be built into encrypted services.
But it also for the first time places a legal obligation on firms to assist with hacking warrants, including breaking into their own encrypted services.
The UK government is also examining ways it can force access to encrypted services, as part of its own wider national security push.
Critics argue that once a back door is created to these encrypted services anyone, friend or foe, will be able to use them.
PWNED: Facebook, which built its business on the free sharing of information, will pivot to offering more encrypted services, The Post's Elizabeth Dwoskin reported.
Cameron's comments suggest that he wants a blanket law that would cover not only existing forms of communication such as encrypted services or Snapchat-style services but also any that might develop into the future.
Although it is unclear precisely what these countries are asking for, one demand is for the same kind of access to BlackBerry's encrypted services that they think the company already gives authorities in the United States and other industrialized democracies.
The report carries only one reference to him, saying that the move by internet companies to offer encrypted services had been accelerated by his disclosures but would have come anyway.
Cyber security is to be sacrificed at the altar of "national security": government hacking would become legal, bulk datasets collected and mined, and encrypted services subject to state restrictions.
Intelligence agencies in both the UK and the US have been trying to force tech companies to provide a key or backdoor into their encrypted services, which they say is necessary to combat terrorism, international criminal gangs and paedophiles.
"I believe the future of communication will increasingly shift to private, encrypted services where people can be confident what they say to each other stays secure and their messages and content won't stick around forever," he said.
