• knokelmaat@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Bad actors are already commiting crimes, they will have no trouble “illegally” using encryption software to keep their message hidden. Encryption is just math, you cannot stop a computer from performing an encryption algorithm.

    You can however “make it illegal” for software to do this, what just results in normal citizens having unencrypted communication, while people who are up to no good are still encrypting their stuff.

    🤦

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      1 year ago

      Yeah they know that. The whole “let’s stop criminals and terrorists” bit is just an excuse.

      The conservative government in the UK is really weird and they actually want to be a dictatorship, but they’re just not very good at it. I have no idea why they are doing this.

      The thing is it’s also unlikely to achieve that objective as well because they highly likely to be voting out of power next year. So basically this is a pointless law in every possible regard.

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      Or just stealing someone’s phone, doing whatever they want to do, toss it in a river, and not have anything traced back to them