Basically she's saying chat apps in the UK shouldn't be allowed end-to-end encryption. So the terrorists will setup a chat system that look like payments. In the mean-time, the UK government will use our chat to identify harmless political dissidents, groom them online and then fail to incite them to violence. Given previous performance, they will meet some of their targets, get a few pregnant and then get sued 20 ye…
Real people don't need end-to-end encryption says UK Home Secretary
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Re: Real people don't need end-to-end encryption says UK Home Secretary
#32Basically she's saying chat apps in the UK shouldn't be allowed end-to-end encryption. So the terrorists will setup a chat system that look like payments. In the mean-time, the UK government will use our chat to identify harmless political dissidents, groom them online and then fail to incite them to violence. Given previous performance, they will meet some of their targets, get a few pregnant and then get sued 20 ye…
Re: Real people don't need end-to-end encryption says UK Home Secretary
#33Basically she's saying chat apps in the UK shouldn't be allowed end-to-end encryption. So the terrorists will setup a chat system that look like payments. In the mean-time, the UK government will use our chat to identify harmless political dissidents, groom them online and then fail to incite them to violence. Given previous performance, they will meet some of their targets, get a few pregnant and then get sued 20 ye…
Re: Real people don't need end-to-end encryption says UK Home Secretary
#34It will simply destroy the privacy of ordinary people who set up a dinner or buy a birthday present for their kids
Re: Real people don't need end-to-end encryption says UK Home Secretary
#35It will simply destroy the privacy of ordinary people who set up a dinner or buy a birthday present for their kids
Re: Real people don't need end-to-end encryption says UK Home Secretary
#36Basically she's saying chat apps in the UK shouldn't be allowed end-to-end encryption. So the terrorists will setup a chat system that look like payments. In the mean-time, the UK government will use our chat to identify harmless political dissidents, groom them online and then fail to incite them to violence. Given previous performance, they will meet some of their targets, get a few pregnant and then get sued 20 ye…
How could they prevent terrorists to develop their own end-2-end encrypted chat app?
Re: Real people don't need end-to-end encryption says UK Home Secretary
#37Basically she's saying chat apps in the UK shouldn't be allowed end-to-end encryption. So the terrorists will setup a chat system that look like payments. In the mean-time, the UK government will use our chat to identify harmless political dissidents, groom them online and then fail to incite them to violence. Given previous performance, they will meet some of their targets, get a few pregnant and then get sued 20 ye…
Say a smartphone app ran both an https client and server. For users to send each other messages, they connect to each others servers. That's end to end encryption, right? And looks identical to the type of encryption they'd still allow right? What have I missed?
Re: Real people don't need end-to-end encryption says UK Home Secretary
#38Staggering double speak from Orwell's own land. Who would have thought.
Question: Is a terrorist more a threat to civilization or these closet totalitarians crawling out of the woodwork?
Re: Real people don't need end-to-end encryption says UK Home Secretary
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a necessary but not a sufficient condition. That doesn't make it useless.
I think the US proves that the "constitution" as any mechanism for safety is absurd. It's ignored or abused when it's convenient.
It's reverse hill climbing via million slippery slopes.
Re: Real people don't need end-to-end encryption says UK Home Secretary
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
How could they prevent terrorists to develop their own end-2-end encrypted chat app?
... or connecting with SSL to an overseas server under their control ?
So you have the choice of either getting thrown in jail or to give up the keys.