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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