Amber Rudd accuses tech giants of sneering at politicians
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[QUOTE]Home Secretary Amber Rudd has accused technology experts of "patronising" and "sneering" at politicians who try to regulate their industry.
She said Silicon Valley had to do more to help the authorities access messages on end-to-end encrypted services like WhatsApp.
And she said she did not need to understand how they worked to know they were "helping criminals".
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She added: "I don't need to understand how encryption works to understand how it's helping - end-to-end encryption - the criminals.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41463401[/url]
Oh please just fuck off already.
i think you do need to know how encryption works to understand magic keys are a horrible idea though.
Oh fuck off Rudd you ignorant whore, half the country sneers at you and the rest of your party and I can't say I blame them, nor can I blame anyone else for it.
This is on the same intellectual level as "I don't need to understand evolution to know it's fake".
These politicians likely make use of encryption in their daily life. How can we possibly make them understand what they're suggesting? Ruling out banning it, or installing back-doors, what other options are there?
When you're acting like an idiot and ruining a whole country and the rest of us with it, you deserve to be sneered at.
For the sake of every sector of the British economy that relies on this technology, I hope she's ousted from a position she has no business being in.
"I don't need to understand how encryption works to regulate encryption" is such an emblematic statement of the Tory party.
[QUOTE=Rossy167;52741439]"I don't need to understand how encryption works to regulate encryption." is such an emblematic statement of the Tory part.[/QUOTE]
"I don't need to understand how to run a country, to run a country"
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[QUOTE=EXPLOOOSIONS!;52741448]"I don't need to understand how to run a country, to run a country"
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That was indeed what I was going for.
you're not trying to regulate an industry, you're trying to backdoor a security measure
a security measure that the government and public sphere rely upon
how can you be this stupid and still be in a position of power
[QUOTE=Cloak Raider;52741695]how can you be this stupid and still be in a position of power[/QUOTE]
Three recounts is how!
[QUOTE=Cloak Raider;52741695]you're not trying to regulate an industry, you're trying to backdoor a security measure
a security measure that the government and public sphere rely upon
how can you be this stupid and still be in a position of power[/QUOTE]
By apealing to stupid people
Someone should write to her and say "Cars help criminals too, should we ban those? Oh what about food? They can't commit crimes if they're dead!" just to point out how terrible her argument is.
Tech experts don't sneer, they cry in dismay as clueless politicians make laws that restrict people's freedom of privacy and don't listen to their advice.
Isn't she that one woman that forced a guy at a conference to stop talking about Britain's arms deals with Saudi Arabia or something along the lines of that?
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEcMW6RmC_w[/media]
I thought I recognized her name.
[QUOTE=Skerion;52743969]Isn't she that one woman that forced a guy at a conference to stop talking about Britain's arms deals with Saudi Arabia or something along the lines of that?
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEcMW6RmC_w[/media]
I thought I recognized her name.[/QUOTE]
She was also the lady that said that people should "judge us [the tories] on our record" :v:
Wouldn't every modern business sneer at being told what to do by inept morons?
Christ, this is hurtful to read. I'm currently developing a software project that heavily relies on proper encryption and other security measures, so reading this is just... Man, she's out of touch.
[QUOTE=Shirt.;52744833]Wouldn't every modern business sneer at being told what to do by inept morons?[/QUOTE]
This is a pretty extreme case
Imagine if some government official said "Every lock that's used in this country must be manufactured so that it can be opened with ONE MASTER KEY!"
This is equally fucking retarded.
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