Re:David Cameron is going to try and ban encryption in Britain
by coffeeaddicted on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @12:33PM
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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!
Re:David Cameron is going to try and ban encryption in Britain
by nly on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @12:45PM
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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.
Re:David Cameron is going to try and ban encryption in Britain
by JoshuaScholar on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @12:50PM
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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."
Re:David Cameron is going to try and ban encryption in Britain
by otherusername2 on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @12:57PM
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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.
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.
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.
Lol.
"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."
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.