2y ago

The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide

www.eff.org

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Only if other countries follow, but with such a small market it's easier to just abandon the UK.
Crossing my fingers that if they go through with this, all tech companies just stop doing business in the UK, causing them to realize what a horrible mistake they have made and undo it quickly.
- Yeah, I might go and live in mainland Europe ... Oh, hang on ...
/* Australia has entered the unencrypted chat *
- Thankfully the right wing party has been booted out nationally here now. The political will to ban encryption has lessened a fair bit.
  
  Unfortunately the damage has already been done.
  The Assistance and Access Bill 2018 pretty much forces companies to backdoor their products when requested if they operate in Australia.
- Oh we know already. ;)
We should just erode UK instead. We don’t need tea. I’ll miss their comedy shows tho
- I need tea but luckily it's not grown in UK
When this goes ahead, and it probably will, I hope that every single app implements it in a totally different, unfriendly, unautomated, way, or even better, make it unique per person, per app. Or, even multiple methods that are only available at certain times of certain days. It'll be absolutely useless to the government if they have to wade through mud to get at the data.
this chat is 100% private its only me, you and British Glowies. see perfectly private. its stupid that the british goverment thinks there can be spying and still be private, it contradicts itself. i hope they throw this legislation out because privacy is a right not an option.
They will stop doing business in Britain. A small market. Chances that ither countries do the same is there.
I think with this they are even worst than China... Getting UK back to the top of at least one list must be the goal here.

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