News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on UK Home Secretary says encryption on messaging services is unacceptable. Parent comment

Re:UK Home Secretary says encryption on messaging services i... by loup-vaillant on Sunday March 26, 2017 @07:07AM (#13960158)
> How do they want to prevent someone from creating his own end-to-end encryption app?

It's basically impossible. One can also use steganography to hide messages in lolcat pictures, or music files. The only way to prevent this, I think, is to start a totalitarian surveillance state where using Free or custom software or hardware is punishable by death. Even then, I'm not sure this will be enough.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:UK Home Secretary says encryption on messaging services i... by thehardsphere on Sunday March 26, 2017 @08:23AM (#13960405)
Given that even the most totalitarian states eventually fail and don't ever have complete and total control over the entire populace, I think you're correct that it will not be enough.

What they really need is to invent time travel, and murder Ada Lovelace.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:UK Home Secretary says encryption on messaging services i... by M_Grey on Sunday March 26, 2017 @08:56AM (#13960526)
That should be a canonical test for the implausibility of any policy. "Do we need to invent a time machine for this to work?"
[ Parent | on HN ]