Twitter Reacts to David Cameron’s Encryption Ban Plan

On Monday, UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to essentially ban end-to-end internet encryption and to grant British intelligence access to any part of the web they choose if his Conservative party is re-elected in May.

http://youtu.be/u_kqM0gn63M

Cue Twitter to mock, protest, and express absolute incredulity at the clueless politician:

Politicians: The kind of people who think they can ban math.

— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) January 13, 2015

Can you imagine the number of times David Cameron used and relied on end-to-end encryption during the day he suggested it be outlawed?

— Jeff Waugh (@jdub) January 13, 2015

Well, @Number10gov, this is awkward. pic.twitter.com/JSjUBYTYES

— Stuart Gibson (@stuartgibson) January 13, 2015

https://twitter.com/onetruecathal/status/554916719027036160

Which of the City banks has called Cameron and calmly informed him that banning encryption makes ecommerce an impossibility?

— Mark Pesce (@mpesce) January 13, 2015

=> magnifico @doctorow best evisceration of #CameronCryptoBollox so far http://t.co/o3R7tEadXm

— Caspar Bowden (@CasparBowden) January 13, 2015

Cameron seems to think that end-to-end encryption is a nefarious tool only used by “terrorists”, either ignorant of the fact that the post-internet world runs on encryption – every international transaction his banker friends makes relies on such protocols – or appealing to the implied ignorance of the British public. With an election looming, the latter seems most likely.

Source: Techcrunch