In an article for The Register, Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge, has challenged claims that bypassing encryption is essential to protecting children online. He contends that proposed regulations that rely on techniques such as device-side message scanning to search for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) are unsound policies and will be harmful.
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