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> 'If we do not provide for access to encrypted communications when it is necessary and proportionate to do so then we must simply accept that there can be area
by zeveb 10y ago
> 'If we do not provide for access to encrypted communications when it is necessary and proportionate to do so then we must simply accept that there can be areas online beyond the reach of the law.'
Yes, yes we must accept that, since it's reality. Queen Elizabeth can no more hold back encrypted communications than King Canute could hold back the tide.
- golemotron 10y agoIt's a re-balancing. Before electronic bugs every park and pub had conversations that were completely beyond the reach of the law. And that's ok. We used to call that liberty.
- Zigurd 10y agoEven here you see people who harbor the delusion that governments are all-powerful, ignoring the fact that if they employed mind-readers, or, for that matter "polygraphers," they would be an unscientific fraud and no amount of law could change that.