They’re using child safety as an excuse to pass this bill, which is funny because criminals don’t tend to care about the law and thus will just move to (now illegal) encrypted services.
It’s doubly interesting because Boris Johnson (the former prime minister and head of the party who came up with this bullshit) is literally hiding behind the fact he can’t find the passcode for his encrypted WhatsApp messages to stop the COVID enquiry seeing evidence he has in regards to how COVID was handled, and members of his party, who proposed this bill, are saying it’s an attack on democracy that he hands over these encrypted messages.
In short, the government is coming for YOUR encryption but they’ll keep using it to keep info they don’t want you to know, thank you very much!
People should stop voting on representatives who have no fucking clue about technology.
Yeah.
It’d be good if we had that choice but we don’t.
Good luck. Also once quantum computing hits we’re going to have to rethink encryption anyway.
True, but cryptographers are already working it.
People are already working on quantum encryption, there are few encryption already available to use. You can use right now on cloudflare.
I’m thinking the relevant service providers are going back out of the UK rather than put in a backdoor for them.
This is what Apple has already threatened to do. They’ve said that if they’re going to be forced to introduce backdoors into iMessage for the UK, they’ll simply stop offering iMessage in the UK altogether. I’d imagine that other providers like Signal will do the same.
Companies from UK can’t back out. They will have to follow these regulations. Then some more will follow to keep competing
Apple, SIgnal, Session, WhatsApp and a few others have already said they’ll simply withdraw from the UK market if this bill goes through.
Lets hope it gets struck down in the Lords like the similarly descructive REUL bill
How many major and ubiquitous communication companies are HQ’d in the UK?
So something I’ve never quite gotten, is what’s to stop someone from just running a message through pgp before using an insecure app? The math is out of the bag already.
Not only that, those backdoors going to be really big juicy targets for bad actors and they will be cracked by someone either publicly or privately in a matter of months…
