Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill
jabjoe@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
This ends with just another war on encryption.
When encryption is legal, they can’t know what is going on between two points. They going to make is so we can only have encryption to nodes they trust?
It is dangerously technologically illiterate to wage war on encryption.
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Jokes on you, e2e encryption is already banned in some cases in the uk afaik. Hence apple dropping some cloud services
jabjoe@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Easy enough to do when it’s mega corps. They don’t really care about anything but money. If everyone had self hosted services with e2e, be far harder. Encryption is everywhere now.
So they will go after the end points. Which again, is a battle they can’t win. All very Cory Doctorow’s “Unauthorized Bread”.
If you care about this stuff:
UK: action.openrightsgroup.org/make-one-donation US: www.eff.org/pages/donate-eff EU: my.fsfe.org/donate
There will be others too, those are just in my head’s cache.
Some how we need to get governments to listen to us serfs instead mega corps and authoritarian police/spooks.
The world they want is not only terrible for digital and political freedom, but competition, thus functioning markets. It’s terrible for making developers and makers instead of dumb consumers, which in turn, is terrible for technology and progress.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If I was black hatter I would be looking at these people like they just dropped a golden goose.