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I think tech crunch is panicking Given that this is for CSP ie ISP or Telco to facilitate tapping (as all ready happens) It looks likely that 95% of the startu
by spacecowboy_lon 11y ago
I think tech crunch is panicking Given that this is for CSP ie ISP or Telco to facilitate tapping (as all ready happens)
It looks likely that 95% of the startups in the UK wont be covered
- TheOtherHobbes 11y agoNo - because the definition of CSP is vague enough to include any professional provider of online content and/or services. So it's more likely that 100% of UK startups (with at least 10,000 users) will be covered. This doesn't mean that startups have to build in backdoors now. But it does mean that if someone from the Ministry of Something or Other or MI5/6 or the Police turns up and demands a backdoor and/or access to records, the startup has to comply. I have no idea where this leaves Apple, providers of VPNs, or startups trying to provide secure communications. At a guess it means they'll probably try to stay outside of UK jurisdiction. And I won't be even slightly surprised if banning VPNs is the next step. It's obvious this is going to collide head-on with the Apple vs FBI case in the US. But this time we won't be able to follow it, because the legislation includes a press and reporting gag. The UK's Home Office is notorious for being stuffed full of authoritarian paranoiacs, and they're always doing stupid shit like this. You can't even blame the current gov because it was the same story with the previous crowd - although the authoritarian paranoiacs in power now seem to be trying to take things to the next few levels.
- spacecowboy_lon 11y agoThe definition of CSC is key and I suspect will need to be defined in law quitly lobbying a few Lords or sympathetic MP's to ammend the bill would be better - praying Apples very weak case against the FBI in aid wont help.