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Apple Privacy Encryption
under assault in the UK!
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Posted on 11/03/2015 11:58:52 AM PST by Swordmaker
UK -- Companies such as Apple, Google and others will no longer be able to offer encryption so advanced that even they cannot decipher it when asked to under the Investigatory Powers Bill
Internet and social media companies will be banned from putting customer communications beyond their own reach under new laws to be unveiled on Wednesday.
Companies such as Apple, Google and others will no longer be able to offer encryption so advanced that even they cannot decipher it when asked to, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.
Measures in the Investigatory Powers Bill will place in law a requirement on tech firms and service providers to be able to provide unencrypted communications to the police or spy agencies if requested through a warrant.
The move follows concerns that a growing number of encryption services are now completely inaccessible apart from to the users themselves.
It came as David Cameron, the Prime Minister, pleaded with the public and MPs to back his raft of new surveillance measures.
He said terrorists, paedophiles and criminals must not be allowed a "safe space" online.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
George Washington passionately attacks colonists use of Those Treacherous ENVELOPES.
Time for App writers to take up the gauntlet and do it anyway.
This will soon come here. The government wants to know everything about everybody. It wants to know what you think, what you buy, where you go. It doesn’t care about terrorists.
Government, unless restrained, inevitably moves closer and closer to fascism.
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“He said terrorists, paedophiles and criminals must not be allowed a “safe space” online.”
Or anyone else, for that matter. Imagine when it’s illegal to transmit data or reports critical of global warming, or text criticizing Islam, or Margaret Sanger’s Plan For Peace.
We’ll need to go back to ham radio, hectographs, and face-to-face handoffs of data.
no such thing as unbreakable encryption
“He said terrorists, paedophiles and criminals must not be allowed a “safe space” online.”
He is talking about the government, right?
In todays world, if the government says no, we must say yes.
Colloquial term which we all understand. Nobody short of the NSA can crack properly implemented modern encryption, and even that takes concerted use of resources - not something easily done on a large scale.
And dead drops.
The rate things are going, we’ll be using carrier pigeons again.
Unless, of course, they work for the government.
“He said terrorists, paedophiles and criminals must not be allowed a “safe space” online.”
Nah, over in what’s left of Merry Old England, they simply let those whose stated goal is to kill them, show up, build mosques, rape their young girls, and lay around and draw welfare. I thought most Americans were really stupid until I took a hard look at the UK. The UK is the “Jimmah Cahtah” of nations.
Remember when the UK used to have the world’s best codebreakers? If they learned to reduce the size of government so that only the best can get jobs, maybe that could be the case again.
“The government wants to know everything about everybody. It wants to know what you think, what you buy, where you go. It doesn’t care about terrorists.”
If they cared about terrorists, they wouldn’t import moslems of every stripe, wholesale, impossible to vett, after 9/11.
Government doesn’t get it both ways, tell me you must watch me carefully to protect me from terrorists, while also importing them and protecting them.
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