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We really need to go back to days of police actually going through the trouble of investigating and catching criminals - at least in principle. Now every gover
by mrtksn 3y ago
We really need to go back to days of police actually going through the trouble of investigating and catching criminals - at least in principle.
Now every government security agency dreams of having complete access to the communications of everyone so they don't go through the trouble of doing their job. First UK, now EU.
Although I'm generally closer to the EU mentality of trusting the governments more than the corporations, this aspiration of the governments is just too much even if the European governments were perfect(they are far from it).
IMHO these are good intentioned ideas by the people who are responsible of providing security, it's just that they are too narrow minded brainchild of incompetent bureaucrats.
"How easy would my job be if I was able to access the communications between terrorists/pedos/spies etc."
Yeah right, we all exist to make your job easier and that's the top priority over everything else.
- Jacobinians 3y ago[flagged]
- Jacobinians 3y agoBUT citizen should be NOT reading THE REGISTER, becasue of these kind of misinformation / misquided campaings
- jruohonen 3y ago> BUT citizen should be NOT reading THE REGISTER, becasue of these kind of misinformation / misquided campaings You might misunderstand the competency of some citizens here. Does DigiNotar ring a bell?
- Jacobinians 3y agoDoes google have certificates in there, does china have certificates in there, does russia have certificates in there ALREADY TODAY ???? So if you worry about that, then you should OBVIOUSLY understand that it is either non issue OR it is exploited TODAY EVEN WITHOUT THIS LAW... So this law being in place changes NOTHING in either case.
- jruohonen 3y agoPlease don't spread disinformation. You don't clearly understand how the PKI works.
- mrtksn 3y agoAll that is already a reality in many 3rd world countries and even is European ones like Turkey. By all that, I mean all that! Turkey had a scandal with TurkTrust cert authority(a company owned by the Turkish military fund) where they issued a root cert by mistake(?) and a government body was caught by Google when pretending to be Google. At the same time, Turkey has a robust online services. Signing documents, medical stuff - everything happens digitally and signed securely and Turkish citizens very rarely need to go to physical government locations and almost never need to deal with physical paperwork . There's even government controlled mail service that you can use to do official communications and if something goes sought the courts can check the communications from your government provided, cert signed inbox. The problem with the new stuff that EU and UK are trying to do is, to remove the "being caught by Google" part by legally whenever they feel fit.
- Hamcha 3y agoMy biggest problem with the whole mentality is that most high profile shootings are still being carried out with unsecured methods, e.g. the Paris shooting from 2015 was organized via bare SMS. If law enforcement can't catch criminals using the unsecured channels how can they argue at all that the encryption is to blame?