UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging
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Re: UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging
#2This didn't even make the evening news, the Rolling Stones have a new album out!
Re: UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging
#3> The UK government has conceded it will not use controversial powers in the online safety bill to scan messaging apps for harmful content until it is “technically feasible” to do so (...)
That would be waiting for a quantum computer and quietly hoping that a) nobody develops a strong enough post-quantum scheme and b) there is still civilization after RSA and ECC are broken? Correct me if I'm wrong.
Re: UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging
#4"abandons" seems overstated; "The UK government has conceded it will not use controversial powers" does not mean it doesn't claim to have those powers based on the legislation.
Re: UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging
#5It's a little unclear, but my reading of this is that the power to do it will still be in the law, requiring at most secondary legislation to put into effect (perhaps not even that) if they think they ever have enough leverage over messaging providers, or are willing to spend the political capital. Not a great place to be in really, but better than it actually being deployed.
Re: UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging
#6> The UK government has conceded it will not use controversial powers in the online safety bill to scan messaging apps for harmful content until it is “technically feasible” to do so (...) That would be waiting for a quantum computer and quietly hoping that a) nobody develops a strong enough post-quantum scheme and b) there is still civilization after RSA and ECC are broken? Correct me if I'm wrong.
Quantum computing doesn’t matter. Nothing in the universe can break a one time pad.
Re: UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging
#7"abandons" seems overstated; "The UK government has conceded it will not use controversial powers" does not mean it doesn't claim to have those powers based on the legislation.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is a political attempt to stop the legislation being amended to remove the powers. I would hope that it fails.
Re: UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging
#8This didn't even make the evening news, the Rolling Stones have a new album out!
It made my evening news as I subscribe to the FT.
Re: UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging
#9> The UK government has conceded it will not use controversial powers in the online safety bill to scan messaging apps for harmful content until it is “technically feasible” to do so (...) That would be waiting for a quantum computer and quietly hoping that a) nobody develops a strong enough post-quantum scheme and b) there is still civilization after RSA and ECC are broken? Correct me if I'm wrong.
Quantum computing doesn’t matter. Nothing in the universe can break a one time pad.
Underappreciated fact
Re: UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging
#10> The UK government has conceded it will not use controversial powers in the online safety bill to scan messaging apps for harmful content until it is “technically feasible” to do so (...) That would be waiting for a quantum computer and quietly hoping that a) nobody develops a strong enough post-quantum scheme and b) there is still civilization after RSA and ECC are broken? Correct me if I'm wrong.
Quantum computing doesn’t matter. Nothing in the universe can break a one time pad.
Once again, every cryptographic problem reduces to a key distribution problem :)