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Congrats! Increasingly pessimistic as a British subject that I'll ever be able to use something like this without attracting the attention of my own government
by fredley 11y ago
Congrats! Increasingly pessimistic as a British subject that I'll ever be able to use something like this without attracting the attention of my own government though.
- zmanian 11y agoMaybe you'll be okay in the UK? Still avoiding the UK like the plague right now... http://www.businessinsider.com/uk-government-not-going-to-ban-encryption-2015-7 http://www.businessinsider.com/uk-government-not-going-to-ba...
- raesene9 11y agoUnfortunately the headline for that article doesn't, to me, reflect the letter that's published at the end. They say that they're not targeting encryption directly, but they still say that they essentially want a back door into all communications systems, which is going to necessitate either getting technology providers to give them one, or banning of those that don't. (of course it also won't even come close to achieving their goal, but I somehow don't think that'll stop 'em)
- signal11 11y agoRIPA in the UK already allows for mandatory key disclosure if required by law enforcement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_King... And intelligence agencies have been known to retain encrypted content for longer (in theory, forever): http://www.darkreading.com/risk-management/want-nsa-attention-use-encrypted-communications/d/d-id/1110475 http://www.darkreading.com/risk-management/want-nsa-attentio...? The older I get the more impressed I am with how prescient Scott McNealy was when he said: "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."