Yes, but it's impossible to achieve what Cameron said he wants to achieve without restricting encryption. It's hard to imagine a workable law that bans the dist

Yes, but it's impossible to achieve what Cameron said he wants to achieve without restricting encryption. It's hard to imagine a workable law that bans the distribution of chat apps that do end-to-end encryption that doesn't also ban setting up a web server that supports TLS and connecting to it with a web browser that supports TLS, or using a web browser that supports WebRTC. etc etc there are endless examples. Maybe some kind of licensing system where you agree to log everything in exchange for being allowed to encrypt things over the wire, but the more you think about it the more utterly unworkable it is. When he first made these comments I assumed it was either him mis-speaking, or making up policy on the fly during a speech without actually understand the implications of what he was saying (which he has a history of). But he has come out with the same line several times now and importantly it has been reported across much of the press. Normally when a politician mis-speaks or says something dumb that would shit all over an entire industry the politician's party would be desperately back-tracking by lunchtime. That has not happened. I can only assume that the Tories are at least happy for everybody to go into the next election with the impression that they want to move to restrict crypto, even if they don't actually plan to legislate on it. To my mind that is still grossly reckless. How much investment in the UK tech sector is he going to scare off with this posturing?