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UK gov says new Home Sec will have powers to ban end-to-end encryption
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- Subject: UK gov says new Home Sec will have powers to ban end-to-end encryption
- From: [email protected] (Mirimir)
- Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 07:01:14 -0600
- In-reply-to: <20160716104926.GT16437@x220-a02>
- References: <[email protected]$> <20160716104926.GT16437@x220-a02>
On 07/16/2016 04:49 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 11:28:49AM +0300, Georgi Guninski wrote:
>> Hope this is not duplicate, the personal drivels were quite
>> noisy.
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/14/gov_says_new_home_sec_iwilli_have_powers_to_ban_endtoend_encryption/
>>
>>> UK gov says new Home Sec will have powers to ban end-to-end encryption
>>
>> Very sound, nice and democratic...
>
> So we have various countries banning end to end encryption - Russia,
> possibly China?, now the UK ... what is stopping America from doing so?
>
> The Zimmerman (PGP) case?
That just protects writing about it, including code. Not using it.
> The CIA's need/use/funding for Tor, and their need for many "average
> Joes" to use it also, for it to work?
Maybe so. That would be funny :)