Re:UK spy boss warns of technology terror risk
by Joeboy on Thursday September 17, 2015 @08:37AM
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Spoiler: The video shows two people using a one time pad to communicate. It doesn't show any reason the government can't ban people from doing that, or stop WhatsApp using good encryption in the UK, or throw people in prison for using PGP. Admittedly that's not going to happen in the UK in the near future, but contrary to popular belief there's no reason you can't make maths illegal.
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Re:UK spy boss warns of technology terror risk
by gtf21 on Thursday September 17, 2015 @08:45AM
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But it's really quite hard to make using a one-time pad illegal, and even harder to make maths illegal, so practically, while they could install all the backdoors in the world, they would struggle, practically, to prevent people ever encrypting anything.
Re:UK spy boss warns of technology terror risk
by Joeboy on Thursday September 17, 2015 @08:57AM
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I doubt they're that bothered about people using one-time pads on paper. I think they're bothered about encryption becoming sufficiently normal that the stuff they want to see is indistinguishable from cat photos. There are measures they can take (legislative and otherwise) to prevent that scenario happening.