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Google gets a bad wrap for many reasons, I think mainly for its ad business. UK gov on the other hand.. oh brother. Where to start and where to end? They have
by HenryBemis 3y ago
Google gets a bad wrap for many reasons, I think mainly for its ad business.
UK gov on the other hand.. oh brother. Where to start and where to end? They have been an ongoing fiasco/circus for the past decade, to say the least.
Irrelevant to the specific topic, but in the "UK gov" front, I am still waiting for Boris Johnson and his minions to rake in the £350m every week and fund the NHS.
Back to the topic, for a country where intensive surveillance is BAU, it's no wonder they want to weaken and/or remove E2EE.
I wouldn't be surprised if in X years we hear that they (UK gov) have also tried to pull a "Room 641A" and failed.
- dmcq2 3y agoSystem X was set up thirty to forty years ago to do everything Room 641A was supposed to do without needing to be anywhere near the exchanges. They could just sit in London and put in the numbers to intercept and analogue signal processors looked out for various key words and important lines could be fully monitored