Posted on 02/21/2025 7:11:57 AM PST by BenLurkin
Rotten to the core
when encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption ...
The BBC is wrong.
The data will still be encrypted, but the decryption keys will be available to government.
That’s a very big difference. They make it sound like anyone can see your stuff when this happens.
As simple as one law change, in any country, and you lose data security
To be concise the UK demands the right to spy on its citizens.
This fits in perfectly with their prohibitions on speech, eliminating ownership of tools to defend yourself, high taxation, etc.
Is Keir Starmer related to Nicholas Maduro? The kind of look alike…
If that's the case, the people need to take their government back. That's a police state.
NEVER forget when Obama bin laden was spying on candidate Trump it was with the help of the Brits not to mention the Christopher Steele connection.
The Brits are BAD actors.
It was my understanding that Team Obama was using the Brits for unconstitutional "backdoor" warrants that if done legally in the US would have required FISA warrants which were of course eventually obtained.
The use of these "backdoor" warrants was not the brainchild of the Obama administration but had been initiated early under the Cheney/Bush Crime Family.
As we know the Patriot Act was a misnomer because it was abused by the opposite of patriots.
I always hoped more details of the events of 2015-2016 unconstitutional spying would come out if Trump took back the WH.
If so, the Brits will be seen as the vicious spy state that it is all the while still giving us lectures on how bad Putin is and how he goes after domestic political enemies.
The only true end to end encryption is based on RSA.
Signal and Proton are the only ones who use it correctly.
The rest all have corporate access to the keys.
VPN is probably the weakest security unless full VPN protection is implemented.
***The use of these “backdoor” warrants was not the brainchild of the Obama administration but had been initiated early under the Cheney/Bush Crime Family.
As we know the Patriot Act was a misnomer because it was abused by the opposite of patriots.***
When President Carter passed way and people on FR were ranking the worst Presidents and putting Carter at the top with no mention of Bush I found it laughable. “The War on Terror” and the lies and propaganda spewed to us to make us buy in to those wars. The Patriot Act. And last but not least, The Dept of Homeland Security. He made Carter look like a choir boy.
the decryption keys will be available to government.
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How long will it be that the UK department which holds the keys is hacked and on the Dark Web?
Originally form what I understand is the limey losers wanted access to even users in other countries.
We need to smuggle a lot of weaponry into the UK and see if any of their men still have the balls to correct their current situation.
Fascist police state. That’s what happens when you have no Second Amendment guarantees.
Didn’t France arrest that Telegram guy for refusing to unlock encryption?
Apple is helping the British Fascists suppress free speech and helping them to spy on their citizens.
Remember all that posturing from Apple some years ago when the FBI wanted to see inside a terrorist's cell phone?
Lots of speeches and moral posturing, and now they have capitulated to a government even more intrusive and less respecting of rights than our own.
“If that’s the case, the people need to take their government back. That’s a police state”
As is usually the case, people get the government they deserve. They voted for this.
Didn’t they do something similarly in China? Or was that Google? Regardless this can be repeated now in any country including the US given the lean of the regime.
“So Apple *IS* a bunch of cowards who will bow to government Fascism, so long as it isn’t our government wanting to see terrorist data.
Apple is helping the British Fascists suppress free speech and helping them to spy on their citizens.”
I think you are misreading the situation. The UK is demanding a backdoor so they can decrypt user’s encrypted, private data. Apple fought that, lost, and instead of providing the backdoor is just killing the whole service.
This is the best they can do in a bad situation. It tells people in the UK their data is not private. There is no illusion about it. It allows people to make an informed choice about their data.
1984 was set in England,after all.
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