Certainly law enforcement agencies at both the G8 Law Enforcement Forum and within the EU are constantly discussing this issue and looking for ways forward. It is a very difficult subject, and I am not suggesting I have got the complete solution to it. I do not understand how having a key escrow system can resolve that if people have private encryption. They will then be cooperating with law enforcement in holding keys. In the same way the Interception of Communications Act is a public document and criminals know that interception can take place, they still choose to use telephones to make conversations.
People use what is readily available.
Our proposals are about making what is readily available law enforcement-friendly. No, because there are people from across the criminal fraternity who use ordinary telephones, landlines, mobile phones, pre-paid mobiles. There is not a hierarchy where people at the top of organisations necessarily are that clever, they just happen to be the ones that survive the longest. They are the people who may be using the same techniques. It is true to say that some use disruptive activity in order to circumvent law enforcement access.