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seasonone ( seasonone@opidea.xyz )  to World News@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide

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The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide

www.eff.org

seasonone ( seasonone@opidea.xyz )  to World News@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago
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The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force...
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      It will be if you don’t give them backdoor.

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        They can take my back door by force

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          Ooh la la

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      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.

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