Thats' completely true. Many independent Computer Science academics were telling the Government this when they were making the law, except the UK Gov. thought they knew better.
UK Gov. will back down as it's a beyond daft demand that wont affect their ability to catch criminals. Fortunately for UK Gov is that they have in place secrecy constraints meaning they don't release any details (this story is a leak) so they can back down with not much loss of face. If they pursue then there will be more noise from court hearings (even if hearings held in secret) and Apple would withdraw services from Uk which would have a massive impact not just on Apple users but on UK's reputation as as secure country for holding any data (even US doesn't have backdoors to ADP).
It's so easy for criminals and terrorists to avoid scrutiny even if Gov. has full access to their data. eg "I'll be visiting granny pm 10/Feb/2025" except only those in my inner circle know that day of month is actually day of month of posting message plus the day of month in the message (ie 7 (today)+10 (day in message=17th, etc. other rules for month, other rules for person. And the rules all change for the next post. Thousands of ways to mask what you are really saying and criminals and terrorists know them all us quite a few others. Backdoors don't help anybody know what is really being said.
