Outrageous. I would actually be protesting if this were to happen in my country, and you wouldn’t hear the end of it. Protect-the-children my ass, this is an attack on the freedom of the common folk. Criminals will continue to use encryption even if its against the law; they were already commiting crimes, so what’s one more in the list?
This is exactly why this shit is stupid. Basic private key infrastructure will never have the backdoors they believe they need. Nor should it. The principles and algorithms are simply too well known, and there are far too many code examples to truly put this cat back in the bag. All this does is make the average person less secure while doing nothing to actual spies, terrorists or organized criminals.
How is a country going to end encryption worldwide? The West okay, bu what jurisdiction do they have over me?
That’s what I also fail to grasp.
If things get serious and for example the WhatsApp, Telegram and Signals of the world have to disable e2ee to keep operating in the UK, I guess they could just leave that market before compromising data privacy of their users worldwide.
I don’t see this “ending encryption worldwide” thingy happening, at all.
But they could dig themselves a deeper hole after Brexit, that’s definitely possible and wouldn’t surprise me a bit.
Or ship specific versions of their software for the UK, as it is done with other software in other countries with restrictions.
Just make a list how many companies tech companies operate from west. All those companies have to follow the law of the homeland.
Sure, but most of those companies didn’t even care much about privacy any way. How would this affect Matrix for example?
What you said means pretty much nothing if you don’t take the time to explain it.
This bill seems to be all sort of bad (maybe with some good intentions), really hope it doesn’t pass to not give other countries any ideas
Please don’t fall in that trap. Authoritarian attacks on citizens have always been neatly wrapped in either anti-terrorism or protect-the-children propaganda since the dawn of politics. This is a very obvious and delibirate attempt to further remove freedom from the common folk.
It’s not really that hard to deploy a matrix server. So this bill is dumb as anyone who wants encrypted messages can easily have them.
I’m all for Matrix, but the things is, Matrix is primarily developed by people in the UK. They will be easily forced to implement backdoors.
That’s good to know🙏
Hopefully some trustworthy third party can audit the code if this ever becomes a thing.
