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Who persuades politicians it’s a good idea for the security services to be able to scan all their messages? I am absolutely certain that the politicians have ab
by andy_ppp 3y ago
Who persuades politicians it’s a good idea for the security services to be able to scan all their messages? I am absolutely certain that the politicians have absolutely no clue what they’re being asked to implement.
- martin8412 3y agoThe laws don't apply to politicians, in fact they're explicitly excluded.
- Hizonner 3y agoIn practice, they often use the same services as everybody else, even for official business that they're not supposed to use them for. Sometimes they do that to intentionally try to get around archiving and transparency rules. Other times they do it because they're clueless and/or lazy. Those services don't know that an account belongs to a politician or that they're using it for exempt purposes. Politicians are ALWAYS getting nailed by leaks from various computer-based communication systems that they use. Most of them don't seem to be able to get their heads around how any of this work.
- PartiallyTyped 3y agoThe sad thing is that if any hacker was to show to the politicians what their actions entail, the hacker would get branded a criminal, and the politician's ratings would go up.
- wellthisisgreat 3y agoMost of them are what the majority of non-politicians would consider “evil”. Those who go into that profession are longing to control other people by means of the monopoly of violence that the government has. That MP in the interview is what happens when you give the power to knock down doors and arrest people to somone who likes to get into argument about ethics with people in the news site comment section.
- immibis 3y agoOh, politicians' messages won't be scanned. They'll make sure of that. Only the peons will have their messages scanned. The French law that makes it legal for the government to hack your phone has a bunch of exceptions so it's not legal for the government to hack important people's phones.
- zug_zug 3y ago>> They'll make sure of that No they won't. They'll never be sure if their data is secure. https://www.dw.com/en/angela-merkel-and-hundreds-of-german-politicians-hacked/a-46955419 https://www.dw.com/en/angela-merkel-and-hundreds-of-german-p...
- vogon_laureate 3y agoParliamentarian’s emails are almost certainly scanned by GCHQ, as was revealed by Snowden years ago.
- lockhouse 3y agoAbsolutely, it'll be just like in 1984 where the elites of the party could turn their telescreens off.
- Xarodon 3y agoWhoever has money and/or political capital and a desire to see encryption weakened.
- rjsw 3y agoIt would avoid losing access to all your messages if you forget the PIN for your phone.
- andy_ppp 3y agoI find it interesting they ask for these abilities when I suspect GCHQ is in and out of everyone’s phones if they want to be - certainly the idea Boris’s messages can’t be found is laughable. I am surprised they haven’t set up any security focused messaging apps that operate as honeypots for the monitoring of criminality…
- avidiax 3y agoThe FBI and the Australian equivalent did this already. https://gizmodo.com/the-fbis-fake-encrypted-honeypot-phones-are-showing-up-1847252989 https://gizmodo.com/the-fbis-fake-encrypted-honeypot-phones-...
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