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Re:UK petition to keep Apple data encrypted by Jigsy on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @03:23PM (#43336086)
There's actually a solution to this problem which I stumbled on a few days ago.

Obviously we cannot allow backdoors, and people should have their stuff encrypted, and if the UK's authortarian government wants to know what's being said they should do their job and crack the encryption.

So realistically the UK could just make it illegal to use any encryption algorithm other than DES for anything... in the UK anyway.

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Re:UK petition to keep Apple data encrypted by sph on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @03:31PM (#43336158)
Good job, but the assignment here is not figuring out how the UK can more easily destroy the privacy of their citizens.
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Re:UK petition to keep Apple data encrypted by harvey9 on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @06:45PM (#43337914)
If you use anything stronger than ROT13 you're probably a wrong'un
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