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UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors

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Re: UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors

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post #7

What are Ofcom realistically going to do when providers refuse to comply? We've seen the X/CSAM issue this week and both the government and regulator are clearly unwilling to stand up to American big-tech.

They do what they've been doing. Get another law passed, that gives them what they want. Thats the best part of having a parliament, you just pass new laws

Re: UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors

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post #8
post #7

What are Ofcom realistically going to do when providers refuse to comply? We've seen the X/CSAM issue this week and both the government and regulator are clearly unwilling to stand up to American big-tech.

The next step is the National Firewall and then the VPN ban.

Royal Security Firewall*

Re: UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors

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post #3

Nobody voted for this. I'm pretty cynical about both the current and previous government, but it feels like there's been a shift since Labour came into power. Historically this overbearing surveillance has been held back. There was chatter but it was met with resistance. Now it feels like the discussion is being squashed and there are invisible forces at work. If by some miracle the UK and EU agree on a new Youth Mob…

>If by some miracle the UK and EU agree on a new Youth Mobility Scheme I'm out of here. https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/migration-and-asy...

UK isn’t an EU member state.

Re: UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>If by some miracle the UK and EU agree on a new Youth Mobility Scheme I'm out of here. https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/migration-and-asy...

UK isn’t an EU member state.

That's the entire point of the EU Blue Card. From the linked website (emphasis mine):

> An EU Blue Card gives highly-qualified workers from outside the EU the opportunity to live and work in an EU Member State...

Re: UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors

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post #3

Nobody voted for this. I'm pretty cynical about both the current and previous government, but it feels like there's been a shift since Labour came into power. Historically this overbearing surveillance has been held back. There was chatter but it was met with resistance. Now it feels like the discussion is being squashed and there are invisible forces at work. If by some miracle the UK and EU agree on a new Youth Mob…

> Now it feels like the discussion is being squashed and there are invisible forces at work.

Hanlon's razor applies here. The truth is most people simply don't care because they don't understand, and don't care to understand.

Re: UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors

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post #2

> It starts with child abuse material, because who’s going to defend not catching that? After the recent X CSAM generation arguments and the potential for X to get blocked in the UK, it seems like more people than I expected will defend it.

There were people on HN defending it. Although I'm sure they're 99% defending Musk, and only because they reflexively jump into defense mode any time one of his companies' wrongdoing is discussed. If it were Adobe's or Microsoft's products generating CSAM, you wouldn't hear a peep out of them
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