cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/56385056
Developers of apps that use end-to-end encryption to protect private communications could be considered hostile actors in the UK.
As a sign of good will all politicians will make all of their texting conversations public starting today. That includes private and personal matters as well as all conversations with donors, party members and all government bodies and officials.
Right?
“It is a reasonable assumption that this would be in the interests of a foreign state”
No, it isn’t. Unless that state has the best interests of UK citizens at heart, I guess.
Am I missing something in the thought process here? Surely removing encryption just makes the entire UK uniquely vulnerable to having their messages read not just by UK intelligence but anyone. It doesn’t make any sense.
it only makes citizens vulnerable, and who cares about those peasants?
Governments are so fucking stupid
No, they’re just on payroll of the corpos.
It’s not stupid. It’s malicious.
