Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary
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Re: Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary
#2> When pressed on what kind of metadata she wanted, she replied: “I’m having those conversations in private.”
Well I would like to know who she's having those conversations with, when she's having them, and how long they last. I think it's important that she share this information with us. So that we can catch criminals.
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#3“Legislation is always an alternative.”
Yeah, sure. Because people who actually have something to hide will follow all the rules.
I wonder what they are trying to redirect the media coverage from with ideas like this.
Re: Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary
#4> When pressed on what kind of metadata she wanted, she replied: “I’m having those conversations in private.” Well I would like to know who she's having those conversations with, when she's having them, and how long they last. I think it's important that she share this information with us. So that we can catch criminals.
My viewpoint when talking about security is please sign this form and your bank can send your bank statements on the back of a postcard in full view of everyone.
For your convenience we will include your PIN number and card number in full on all correspondence.
Re: Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary
#5> "However, there is a problem in terms of the growth of end-to-end encryption. "It’s a problem for the security services and for police who are not, under the normal way, under properly warranted paths, able to access that information.”
What surprises me about this argument, is that their stance is that terrorists are accidentally starting to use encryption. So, by consequence, that in the past terrorists simply did not bother with encryption?
In that case, I wonder whether the terrorists have been triggered by the simplicity of current day cryptography, or simply by the knowledge that the governments are always listening in on everything everyone is saying.
It seems to me that someone started an arms-race, be it government or terrorists, and both are willing to cause massive amounts of collateral damage in order to keep one-upping the other.
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#6It's only a problem for Orwellian / Brave New World type states.
Re: Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary
#7“Legislation is always an alternative.” Yeah, sure. Because people who actually have something to hide will follow all the rules. I wonder what they are trying to redirect the media coverage from with ideas like this.
Well there was this: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-fo...
Re: Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary
#8It sounds to me like she believes throwing legislation at an issue will fix it. I mean, everyone obeys the law right?
Re: Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary
#9It's like Rudd and Abbott are competing in which will come up with more ridiculous notion. And you'd think they would choose someone competent for bloody home secretary and shadow home secretary respectively.
Re: Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary
#10> "However, there is a problem in terms of the growth of end-to-end encryption. "It’s a problem for the security services and for police who are not, under the normal way, under properly warranted paths, able to access that information.” What surprises me about this argument, is that their stance is that terrorists are accidentally starting to use encryption. So, by consequence, that in the past terrorists simply did…
The vast majority of terrorists are clowns who, if they happen to use encryption at all, will mess up infosec in ways that are trivial to compromise. So if the Home Secretary is saying that message encryption is a "problem" then there must be something else going on which has little to do with terrorism.