"Stuart says authorities specifically told him that they would not use the backdoor themselves but that he would be expected to access the servers of online casinos and others who used his software overseas in order to retrieve the information of gamblers and bookmakers on their behalf."<p>Big Brother can't even be bothered to do the legwork any longer.
This is just stupidity in my opinion. I hope this doesn't go down the slippery slope so far that I see tomorrow that they have put a warrant out for everyone who worked on /dev/urandom because the developers made it too easy to write gambling software.