UK Home Secretary says encryption on messaging services is unacceptable

Post by M_Grey » Sun, Mar 26, 2017, 12:56 PM UTC

thehardsphere wrote: post #127

loup-vaillant wrote: post #29

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> How do they want to prevent someone from creating his own end-to-end encryption app? It's basically impossible. One can also use steganography to hide messages in lolcat pictures, or music files. The only way to prevent this, I think, is to start a totalitarian surveillance state where using Free or custom software or hardware is punishable by death. Even then, I'm not sure this will be enough.

Given that even the most totalitarian states eventually fail and don't ever have complete and total control over the entire populace, I think you're correct that it will not be enough. What they really need is to invent time travel, and murder Ada Lovelace.

Post by OJFord » Sun, Mar 26, 2017, 1:03 PM UTC

prodmerc wrote: post #109

NetStrikeForce wrote: post #61

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UK's best shot at surviving Brexit is become stronger on value added industries. They have a very good head start over any other EU country in IT and in some research areas. Amber Rudd seems hell bent on destroying their only chance.

They all are intent on crippling any chance the UK has at becoming stronger in high tech industries. I'm so sick of getting "this is an adult resource and you can't view it" anytime I search for information about a drug (pharmaceutical, not just "weed LSD and lols"). Great fucking way to encourage your future chemists. Maybe ban keywords like JavaScript, PHP and SQL while at it, them's the powerful drugs maaan.

Post by retrogradeorbit » Sun, Mar 26, 2017, 1:05 PM UTC

grey-area wrote: post #35

orian wrote: post #7

How do they want to prevent someone from creating his own end-to-end encryption app? It may use other protocols to encode content (images, tweets, fb posts etc.). For me it seems to be more in a direction of so called "Big Brother" than real counter-terrorism.

She's probably being led by the intelligence services on this, and of course they have ulterior motives, their ultimate project is to collect all signals, or as many as they can manage, which apps like whatsapp are thwarting at present. Why can't we collect all the signals all the time? This is incredibly dangerous for our society, no-one should have that much power. That power isn't about terrorism (or even very use…

Post by OJFord » Sun, Mar 26, 2017, 1:06 PM UTC

orian wrote: post #7

How do they want to prevent someone from creating his own end-to-end encryption app? It may use other protocols to encode content (images, tweets, fb posts etc.). For me it seems to be more in a direction of so called "Big Brother" than real counter-terrorism.

Post by sergior » Sun, Mar 26, 2017, 1:13 PM UTC

orian wrote: post #7

How do they want to prevent someone from creating his own end-to-end encryption app? It may use other protocols to encode content (images, tweets, fb posts etc.). For me it seems to be more in a direction of so called "Big Brother" than real counter-terrorism.