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 (mostly gone) (@stuartgibson) January 13, 2015
https://twitter.com/onetruecathal/status/554916719027036160
https://twitter.com/mpesce/status/554828708150652928
=> 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
sadly it is what it is. They keep taking our freedoms, but saying THEIR allowed them. We will do NOTHING, as always… RIP humanity, we had a good run…
This will NEVER happen just saying
inb4 v for vendetta