Comment on Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK
PottedPlant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Here we go again.
Lawmakers: put back doors in end to end encryption.
Tech sector: we can’t.
Lawmakers: think of the children.
Tech sector: it’s math, if we weaken the tech, nothing is private.
Lawmakers: yes, or leave the market.
Tech sector: ok.
This has been playing out since the Clinton administration and the idea there, which failed was key escrow. Key escrow still isn’t a solution becase the code is, now, open source.
The lawmakers want the public to have less privilege than the criminals, or they want the entire population to act as criminals by using freely available software. This shows no forethought.
dartos@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Governments like to assume that once something is illegal , it’ll just stop within their borders
yiliu@informis.land 1 year ago
More to the point, voters assume that to be true. They’ll enthusiastically vote for the politician who promises easy solutions over the one stressing the ambiguities and complexities every time.
Paradox@lemdro.id 1 year ago
Governments like to make things illegal so they can have greater control over their citizens. Eventually they are no longer citizens, but subjects