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UK launches “No Place To Hide” propaganda campaign to ban E2EE

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Re: UK launches “No Place To Hide” propaganda campaign to ban E2EE

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Post by samwillis »

What a waste of public money.

As the paraphrased saying goes:

“If you outlaw Encryption only outlaws will have Encryption.”

It doesn’t solve a thing, other than make politicians look like they are doing something.

Petty thieves, small time drug dealers and other small time criminals may end up without encryption. But it doesn’t solve organised crime, there are the problem and they are intelligent enough to use an encrypted app, even if it “illegal”.

Amusingly our politicians all seem to run our government and parliament via WhatsApp and that’s obviously E2EE.

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Post by agilob »

agd wrote: post #9

Whilst the messaging here is chilling, I don’t think E2E will be banned in the UK. Not least because journalists and MPs use it everyday in signal and WhatsApp.

The regulation won't ban MPs using E2E encryption, the government doesn't care about journalists and their stupid rights. Everyone, but MPs and other people in power will be except from the ban.

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Post by ljm »

agd wrote: post #9

Whilst the messaging here is chilling, I don’t think E2E will be banned in the UK. Not least because journalists and MPs use it everyday in signal and WhatsApp.

I think the government just rolls this kind of legislation out whenever something else is going on and they need a diversion.

I've said it in previous threads on the topic but something like this has probably come up once or twice a year for the past 20 years. Encryption, porn, age restrictions on the internet...

We shouldn't become dismissive of it that way but I'm sure this will conveniently fall off the radar when it's served its purpose. But it should be noted that our PM Boris Johnson referrs to something like this as a dead cat: throw a dead cat on the table and everyone's looking at the dead cat, not the other thing that's going on.

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Post by eptcyka »

agd wrote: post #9

Whilst the messaging here is chilling, I don’t think E2E will be banned in the UK. Not least because journalists and MPs use it everyday in signal and WhatsApp.

MPs and other parliamentary officials are exempt from ISPs keeping logs of their web activities, do you honestly think that this will affect the people in power?

Re: UK launches “No Place To Hide” propaganda campaign to ban E2EE

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Post by Traubenfuchs »

mhh__ wrote: post #5
heavenlyblue wrote: post #3

Why is 500K of public money being spent on this? Any one with more context? Is there anyone I could speak to against this?

Corruption. I'm going to make a wild guess and say that the website has been contracted out to some senior politicians husband's (our corruption is now done by women and minorities, too, progress!) company or something to that effect. Edit: Downvoters, it's pretty well documented at this point that the group of tories in power like giving gov. money to friends and family https://www.sophie-e-hill.com/slides/my-little…

Clearly. Thinly veiled nonsense meant for no one doing nothing. It's simply a way to launder government money into private hands.
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