Tories really trying to cause as much harm as possible before they get voted out so they can blame the next party for mismanaging their mistakes.
The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide
Submitted 1 year ago by seasonone@opidea.xyz to technology@lemmy.world
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Dasnap@lemmy.world 1 year ago
leraje@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not just the Tories, Keir Starmer has already tried to get VPN’s included in the bill. Don’t kid yourself its going to be any better when Labour get in.
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Keir Starmer is just a colour blind Tory who put on the wrong sash.
RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Tories really trying to cause as much harm as possible before they get voted out so they can blame the next party for mismanaging their mistakes.
That’s the conservative M.O. It’s literally the only thing they do.
housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 1 year ago
Don’t you just love it when the justification for fascism becomes, “What about the kids?” I am not saying that this is necessarily the case in this instance, but it’s a common refrain for breaking technology and taking away rights by the authoritarian state.
Jackthelad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Of course we have to spy on you, there’s terrorists out there”.
Mubelotix@jlai.lu 1 year ago
Truth is, terrorists can fight for freedom. Terrorism isn’t always bad. As a french, I’m well aware of the need for revolt
MasterCelebrator@feddit.de 1 year ago
Well at least in the EU where sinilar druff is Plotted by politicians this is exactly their "Argument "
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They really wanna know what porn we’re watching don’t they?
Dasnap@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I can go and watch my femdom in the House of Lords if they really want me to. Hell, it might even add to the experience.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I read the article, and it’s hard to see how this would have worldwide effects. If anything, the companies with customers in the UK will: disable E2EE for chats with UK parties (likely warning the parties); leave the UK market rather than weaken their brand; or create a secondary product just for the UK. Consumers will continue to find workarounds provided the phones and computers are not fully controlled by the government.
The fact that the government would have to force client side scanning software onto phones and computers is probably the death knell of the UK tech industry. Either that, or so many exceptions will need to be added that the legislation would be ineffective. Can you imagine a Linux hacker recompiling their own kernel and then getting thrown in jail because they didn’t enable the government scanning module?
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The reason it will impact security worldwide is that the UK is part of the “14 eyes” alliance, an alliance used to spy on citizens. Any encrypted data going to or through the UK will need to have this backdoor, exposing all encrypted traffic to this vulnerability while also sharing that data with foreign governments. Edward Snowden exposed that the US government was paying the UK government to spy on US citizens for the data. This is what will happen in the UK, but for people around the globe.
pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.one 1 year ago
They’re up to 14 now? When did that happen? They used to be just 5.
eleitl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
VPN tunnels don’t magically become transparent when packets pass UK fiber and routers. And legislation doesn’t translate well into which software people are allowed to run, for endpoints in UK. They can try to become North Korea of course, good luck with that.
rhombus@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I think the major concern is the idea of the government backdoor, any company that implements such a thing is adding a serious weakness to their product. I’m sure the major companies will probably find some other way to contain it to the UK (or leave the UK entirely), but some will opt for the backdoor to cut costs.
AnonTwo@kbin.social 1 year ago
I'd imagine any company who needs their encryption to be taken seriously will openly remove encryption or the product entirely in the UK only.
Since otherwise all their customers would assume they added backdoors and compromised security....
RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
You’re probably right, but the problem is the political precident that’s set. Once a major western government codifies this into law, it becomes a little bit easier and more self-justifiable for other world governments to follow suit.
Every relevant player here needs to be swift and unequivocal about pulling out of the UK if this becomes law. It’s needs to result in a PR disaster and loss of power for the UK government so the world can see what bafoons they are.
The tech industry has an ethical responsibility to unequivocally reject this.