With UK’s new security bill that seems to more dismantle security rather than help. Am I still legally okay to use signal, VPN, tutanota, https, tor?
If everyone keeps on as if this law doesn’t exist, they’ll struggle to enforce it. Don’t cave; make the law unworkable. And if you use a VPN, choose one from a company based overseas.
Mullvad!
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I think you’d be foolish not to do so. Make sure that you also abandon any software that collapses to UK legal pressure.
I thought the legal bits were for those running the services, not those using them?
The TLDR is that when E2EE that allows the government to monitor its contents without giving up encryption for everyone else becomes technically possible, those running the services must assist the government in doing so.
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Yes, it is still OK to use those services. The law is aimed at the messaging/social media businesses, not individuals, and is vague enough that they won’t have to do anything around their E2EE until there is viable technology available to square the circle of allowing for the checking of illegal abuse content while not functionally destroying E2EE. So potentially never.
