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I think the goal is to institute a policy that encourages people to avoid it through services like VPN. Then you get to go after VPN services to "protect law an

I think the goal is to institute a policy that encourages people to avoid it through services like VPN. Then you get to go after VPN services to "protect law and the children", then the UK is able to more effectively spy on and track their citizens.

HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
Cynical me thinks that you could use that in conjunction with some terrorists using Whatsapp or similar and you would have some great grounds for mass decryption. In America, there are supposed to be legal processes that involve a lot of work for the government to spy on people. Is there anything like that in the UK, and do politicians like it?
- junto 8y ago
  I think that the UK have had that covered for a while, and no, the UK government did a lot of this in secret, and there is no legislation designed to protect spying on its own citizens. In fact that's the main point, as well as spying on traffic coming across from the US into Europe: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encry... And the UK government lost in the European Courts (that kind of countercheck is going to disappear after Brexit): https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-45510662 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-45510662 But all they will do is make it more secret and deny everything.