UK gov says new Home Sec will have powers to ban end-to-end encryption

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 11:28:49AM +0300, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> Hope this is not duplicate, the personal drivels were quite
> noisy.
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/14/gov_says_new_home_sec_iwilli_have_powers_to_ban_endtoend_encryption/
> 
> > UK gov says new Home Sec will have powers to ban end-to-end encryption
> 
> Very sound, nice and democratic...

So we have various countries banning end to end encryption - Russia,
possibly China?, now the UK ... what is stopping America from doing so?

The Zimmerman (PGP) case?

The CIA's need/use/funding for Tor, and their need for many "average
Joes" to use it also, for it to work?