UK To Ban Crypto In Devices, Email And More

[oshwm]

Well, this will tackle the problem of the law abiding sheeple using
crypto, I wonder what measures they have in store for those who truly
wish to protect their privacy using decentralised tools?


On 03/11/15 18:20, John Young wrote:
> Excellent development if the bill is enacted. Should shatter the
> complacency
> of crypto advocates and foster other means and methods now getting
> short shrift due to the faith in crypto hyping and marketing -- and tons of
> excuses why crypto has not been as effective as foreordained, blame
> users, blame implementation, blame standards committees, blame spies,
> blame legislators, blame certificate authorities, blame hardware, blame
> insiders and outsiders, blame amateurs, blame backdoors, blame
> venal marketers who sold out to authorities, blame duat hatters working
> both sides of the porous divide, blame open and closed source, the
> pile of excuses grows exponentially as money is heaped onto the
> fire for burning through faster and faster. NSA has at least 191 colleges
> on the take for information assurance studies, with more joining daily
> to get while the getting is good, sending graduates to corporations,
> institutes, NGOs, hack world, leak world, defy authority world as
> evidenced here in this sacred site of tipped gravestones to cipher
> heroics.
> 
> 
> At 12:27 PM 11/3/2015, you wrote:
>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11970391/Internet-firms-to-be-banned-from-offering-out-of-reach-communications-under-new-laws.html
>>
>>
>> Internet firms to be banned from offering unbreakable encryption under
>> new laws
>>
>> 3:16PM GMT 02 Nov 2015
>>
>> Internet and social media companies will be banned from putting
>> customer communications beyond their own reach under new laws to be
>> unveiled on Wednesday.
>> Companies such as Apple, Google and others will no longer be able to
>> offer encryption so advanced that even they cannot decipher it when
>> asked to, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.
>> Measures in the Investigatory Powers Bill will place in law a
>> requirement on tech firms and service providers to be able to provide
>> unencrypted communications to the police or spy agencies if requested
>> through a warrant.
> 
> 

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