Real people don't need end-to-end encryption says UK Home Secretary
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Real people don't need end-to-end encryption says UK Home Secretary
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#2And I thought the BBC article was bad enough. This is just appalling.
"Real people" just use ROT13...
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#4Real people keep their heads down, don't question authority, and don't cause trouble.
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#5real people don't need UK Home Secretary.
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#7real people don't need UK Home Secretary.
criticizing the UK Home Secretary? Sure sounds like harassment to me!
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#8> Companies are constantly making trade-offs between security and 'usability', and it is here where our experts believe opportunities may lie.
Amber Rudd's "experts" couldn't prevent a simple brute force attack on her own parliament that would have easily been mitigated with 2FA (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/26/parliament_email_ha...)
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#9"So, there are options. But they rely on mature conversations between the tech companies and the Government - and they must be confidential"
i.e. backdoors. Trust us, we are the government!
Re: Real people don't need end-to-end encryption says UK Home Secretary
#10I don't think her statement actually says "real people don't need end-to-end encryption". I'm not sure what she is saying though. Not banning end-to-end encryption, not asking for back doors, but having "mature conversations" that have something to do with trade-offs between usability and security. What?