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

[Mirimir]

On 07/16/2016 04:49 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> 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?

That just protects writing about it, including code. Not using it.

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

Maybe so. That would be funny :)