5 ms·

David Cameron is going to try and ban encryption in Britain

59 points by lelf 11y ago

coffeeaddicted 11y ago
The society of connoisseurs of random computer art welcomes you to share your master-pieces with each other. The beauty of this abstract art form is in the eye of the beholder... there is no key dear police!
andyl 11y ago
from my cold dead hands...
fweespeech 11y ago
Yes, because David Cameron can ban math. Lol.
- JoshuaScholar 11y ago
  The old joke from the Soviet Union, "Why do police go around in triples?" "One of them can read" "One of them can write" "And the third is to keep an eye on those two dangerous intellectuals."
raspasov 11y ago
Useless politician.
deleted 11y ago
[deleted]
sctb 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9811288 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9811288
pibefision 11y ago
Absolutly impossible. I can understand how someone can propose something like that.
shmerl 11y ago
I guess Cameron wants to see UK turned into the world of We Happy Few: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/112359230/we-happy-few-welcome-to-wellington-wells-you-saucy/description https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/112359230/we-happy-few-...
nly 11y ago
To me it sounds like he wants to ban the likes of Tor rather than at-rest encryption. This would be a natural extension of the current situation where ISPs are required to block a list of websites containing the likes of child porn and bittorrent search engines. I can see the government doing this with reasoning along the lines of "You don't need to hide if you're in a 'free country' like the UK, so UK ISPs can block Tor without impinging on the opportunities of whistle-blowers, informants or activists". Bullshit.
ape4 11y ago
Seeing the photo of the Queen reminded me of something undemocratic that could be banned.
otherusername2 11y ago
This has nothing to do with stopping terrorists. I'm pretty sure Cameron is not a stupid person and has consulted with experts on the matter, and there's no way anybody with any kind of clue is going to think it's possible to stop terrorists from using strong crypto. No, this sounds like playing the Terrorist wild card to ensure the common people don't get crypto. Cameron probably fears that your average (criminal) Joe, with the help of tech companies, transparently gets to use crypto. Crypto is getting to easy to use.
marcosdumay 11y ago
Will he ban HTTPS? A browser is everything that needs to be distributed for encrypting communications. Anyway: > Britain is not a state that is trying to search through everybody’s emails and invade their privacy … No, it's a state that is achieving it, right now.
deleted 11y ago
[deleted]
pskocik 11y ago
They should ban David Cameron and monarchies. I hope that ban covers TLS too. Brits don't need HTTPS websites.
seky 11y ago
Maybe he doesn't like that Britain is the financial center, perhaps he thinks money spoils people :-)

59 points by lelf 11y ago

The society of connoisseurs of random computer art welcomes you to share your master-pieces with each other. The beauty of this abstract art form is in the eye of the beholder... there is no key dear police!

andyl 11y ago

from my cold dead hands...

fweespeech 11y ago

Yes, because David Cameron can ban math. Lol.

JoshuaScholar 11y ago
The old joke from the Soviet Union, "Why do police go around in triples?" "One of them can read" "One of them can write" "And the third is to keep an eye on those two dangerous intellectuals."

raspasov 11y ago

Useless politician.

deleted 11y ago

[deleted]

sctb 11y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9811288 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9811288

pibefision 11y ago

Absolutly impossible. I can understand how someone can propose something like that.

shmerl 11y ago

I guess Cameron wants to see UK turned into the world of We Happy Few: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/112359230/we-happy-few-welcome-to-wellington-wells-you-saucy/description https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/112359230/we-happy-few-...

nly 11y ago

To me it sounds like he wants to ban the likes of Tor rather than at-rest encryption. This would be a natural extension of the current situation where ISPs are required to block a list of websites containing the likes of child porn and bittorrent search engines. I can see the government doing this with reasoning along the lines of "You don't need to hide if you're in a 'free country' like the UK, so UK ISPs can block Tor without impinging on the opportunities of whistle-blowers, informants or activists". Bullshit.

ape4 11y ago

Seeing the photo of the Queen reminded me of something undemocratic that could be banned.

otherusername2 11y ago

This has nothing to do with stopping terrorists. I'm pretty sure Cameron is not a stupid person and has consulted with experts on the matter, and there's no way anybody with any kind of clue is going to think it's possible to stop terrorists from using strong crypto. No, this sounds like playing the Terrorist wild card to ensure the common people don't get crypto. Cameron probably fears that your average (criminal) Joe, with the help of tech companies, transparently gets to use crypto. Crypto is getting to easy to use.

marcosdumay 11y ago

Will he ban HTTPS? A browser is everything that needs to be distributed for encrypting communications. Anyway: > Britain is not a state that is trying to search through everybody’s emails and invade their privacy … No, it's a state that is achieving it, right now.

deleted 11y ago

[deleted]

pskocik 11y ago

They should ban David Cameron and monarchies. I hope that ban covers TLS too. Brits don't need HTTPS websites.

seky 11y ago

Maybe he doesn't like that Britain is the financial center, perhaps he thinks money spoils people :-)