• UK to ban encrypted messenger services to combat the specter of ISIS
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This is ridiculous. No sane terrorist uses publicly available software to communicate. This is just harming innocent people and it just goes to show how powerless our government feel. If anything it shows that the terrorists are succeeding in changing our way of life through the means of terror. Great job Dishface!
[QUOTE=Meme It Up;48203260]I'm moving out west to start an Islamic death cult. We're going to post videos of breathing exercises. We'll all laugh as Britons choke to death from the breathing ban.[/QUOTE]When I saw your flag I burst out laughing. I bet there's some dudes gathered around a computer in some dark basement somewhere trying to figure out when and where you'll start your Muslamic breathing terrorism.
God, your guys' government is all kinds of fucked. At least you're not 'Straya
Sad that people in this thread have expressed feelings of wanting to move country, rather than stay and try and solve the problem democratically. It just goes to show how little confidence we have in our own governments and how little we feel we can influence it. I certainly feel the same (minus the wanting to leave part)
[QUOTE=Trumple;48204826]Sad that people in this thread have expressed feelings of wanting to move country, rather than stay and try and solve the problem democratically. It just goes to show how little confidence we have in our own governments and how little we feel we can influence it. I certainly feel the same (minus the wanting to leave part)[/QUOTE]Fighting means suffering needlessly when you can just leave for a better life.
So how are we supposed to abide by the Data Protection Act if encryption isn't legally allowed to be used without a backdoor in it? Part of the act specifies that we must store data securely after all, and transmitting that data without some form of security totally invalidates any attempts to store said data securely as man-in-the-middle attacks aren't exactly hard to pull off. Get these old fucks out of here. Get experts to run the appropriate areas of government. We might fucking get somewhere.
[QUOTE=hexpunK;48205423]So how are we supposed to abide by the Data Protection Act if encryption isn't legally allowed to be used without a backdoor in it? Part of the act specifies that we must store data securely after all, and transmitting that data without some form of security totally invalidates any attempts to store said data securely as man-in-the-middle attacks aren't exactly hard to pull off. Get these old fucks out of here. Get experts to run the appropriate areas of government. We might fucking get somewhere.[/QUOTE] If you want to know what happens to people who speak sense when they collide with the government agenda look at Professor David Nutt :P Oh and David Kelly
Cant really restrict the use of things like PGP
Surprising this isn't the US for once.
[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;48206097]Surprising this isn't the US for once.[/QUOTE] It is, it's just not a law. It's called the NSA. Google and Microsoft already gave them back door access a long time ago.
I've seen some real prick politions in my time, but this Cameron must be a fucking cactus If he thinks he can go through with this. Everywhere I go online I hear of nothing but questionable moves by this guy.
[QUOTE=UncleJimmema;48206115]It is, it's just not a law. It's called the NSA. Google and Microsoft already gave them back door access a long time ago.[/QUOTE] kinda. they can get messages if it's court ordered, but that's about it. neither operating system has any evidence of a backdoor.
[QUOTE=OneWingedAngel8;48207383]I've seen some real prick politions in my time, but this Cameron must be a fucking cactus If he thinks he can go through with this. Everywhere I go online I hear of nothing but questionable moves by this guy.[/QUOTE] Its the first year of them back in power so they will try and push this stuff through, towards the end they will start pushing stuff everyone likes and spin it saying "look at all this awesome stuff we did" while forgetting the stuff they did at the start of the term
[QUOTE=cody8295;48206053]Cant really restrict the use of things like PGP[/QUOTE] your already required to surrender your decryption key or face imprisonment [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_Kingdom[/url]
The terrorists will make an encrypted messenger within a week if they need. It's not hard to do at all.
I swear this same story has been posted many times in the past few months.
[B]Android:[/B] [URL]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcrime.securesms&hl=en[/URL] (Cyanogenmod actually comes with an app to pass SMS through this instead of your carrier automagically like iMessage, so you only need this on non-CM roms) [URL]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcrime.redphone&hl=en[/URL] [B]iOS:[/B] [URL]https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/signal-private-messenger/id874139669?mt=8[/URL] [B]Source:[/B] [URL]https://github.com/whispersystems/[/URL] ([URL]https://whispersystems.org/[/URL]) All I can say is: Good luck with that. Way too late to try and stop encryption. This one goes a step beyond the standard as well, because all messages sent are not only encrypted, they also have built-in deniability.
[url]http://uk.businessinsider.com/uk-government-not-going-to-ban-encryption-2015-7?r=US[/url] Well would you look at that backpedaling
So facebook and skype would just have to let them block their apps and then the people would suddenly care about politics enough to get this douchebag off the rails. Not enough people care about surveilance. But if they're blocked from using the apps then they would lose their shit.
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