The whole premise is dumb like their war on drugs, porn and whatever else offends their Victorian-era sensibilities. You cannot stop encryption, the genie is out of the bottle since the advent of PGP. These Dunning-Kruger morons make me embarrassed to be British.
They’ll just focus on baking obscure side channel attacks into firmware wherever they can. Consumer devices also leak a ton of EM energy, and there have been a bunch of “proof of concepts” at deriving device state remotely by observing such energy. I’d be pretty surprised if the right folks can’t read private keys being loaded into cache under the right circumstances already.
In a way it’s kind of a poetic compromise. They can’t do mass surveillance like they want, but they can still “tap” devices via physical access, preferably with a healthy dose of due process.
Absolutely agree. It’s pandering to a small minority of pressure groups demanding to make the internet safe, without understanding the fundamental nature of what they’re trying to do or the implications of doing so.
Absolute shower of cockwombles. We need to vote these arseholes out of danger.
So they’ve decided that this part of the bill will be unenforceable and useless, but they plan to go ahead and pass it anyway. I suppose they’ll soon need to do the same for the age verification nonsense as well.
They still want to impose these ill-conceived laws on us so as to appear to have done something, but the people who had somehow been convinced that this would do some good will be disappointed. If they stick with this course, they will soon have managed the impressive political feat of pleasing exactly nobody with the results of this excruciating years-long process of counterproductive legislating.
There are plenty pf laws out there that nobody cares about enough to try and enforce, but if you aggrevate the wrong people then suddenly you’re found in technical violation of them and they have rational to toy with your life. This would be one of the I expect.
This is a temporary reprieve rather than a victory. The wording of the bill hasn’t changed, they’ve simply added the statement that what they want to do isn’t technically possible yet but when it is, this’ll be revived.
Yeah, let’s break encrypt!
Not that it’s possible but it would be awesome no? That somebody can just read my passwords, access my bank accounts, read my private messages… You trust the government with those keys, Right?
Don’t forget about the Labour Party.They played a huge part creating and pushing for this bill.Edit: Apologies, I forgot that the Labour Party is the Red Tie Tories. Carry on.
Weren’t they in full cartoon villain mode the whole time? I don’t really see what changed.
Cartoon? ‘Tory’ literally means ‘robber’.
The tories have been villains since 2010. Plenty of Russian money still floating around there I’m sure.
2010
Much, much longer than that.
The law is still getting passed though
Not out of the woods yet, but a good win
Too bad for all the Russian hackers that were looking forward to a bunch of back-doors to exploit.
Why not publish classified documents first and then we can talk about breaking encryption for us blokes. Damn governments.
They’ll be back to try again if this bill is not passed.
Glowies luckily lost this battle
This argument doesn’t add up. Apple had already built a CSAM scan system before shelving it and am pretty sure Google have one for Drive/Photos.
