UK Home Secretary says encryption on messaging services is unacceptable
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Re: UK Home Secretary says encryption on messaging services is unacceptable
#2How would that have prevented anything? As if they'd have responded within 2 minutes to some guy sending weird messages.
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#3what if the guy read a book and agreed with it because he was an sad angry teenager with no life
Re: UK Home Secretary says encryption on messaging services is unacceptable
#4what if the guy read a book and agreed with it because he was an sad angry teenager with no life
Then the obvious answer is to ban books, right?
Right?
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#5How can it be acceptable to say shit like this when you have such a position within the government.
Re: UK Home Secretary says encryption on messaging services is unacceptable
#6How can it be acceptable to say shit like this when you have such a position within the government.
Because we've accepted it. We know the government is watching us 24/7 and no one cares. This is the new norm.
Stories like this fill me with a slight bit of hope that encryption works
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#7How 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.
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#8"He sent an encrypted message from whatsapp"
Yes, and then he went and did something stupid with easily accessible tools and acted alone.
You might have an argument if he was part of a coordinated attack against something but lone-wolf terrorism has always been defined as unpreventable by security services such as SIS. Once radicalised it's impossible to prevent individuals doing stupid stuff.
The only thing she has revealed his the conservative parties desire for totalitarian control. :(
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#9> "That is my view - it is completely unacceptable, there should be no place for terrorists to hide."
I am sure a ban on encryption would work.
Hey, guys, I just had a great idea. Let's ban bombs, knifes, and driving into people. That would fix the terrorism problem. Once it is illegal, no terrorist would dare do it!!!
I'm wondering why Churchill didn't think to ban the Enigma machine. If only England was led by smart people like the British interior minister...
Re: UK Home Secretary says encryption on messaging services is unacceptable
#10How can it be acceptable to say shit like this when you have such a position within the government.
Britain is well known around the world for not caring about privacy/surveillance.