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PeonForHer -> RE: Internet firms to be banned from offering unbreakable encryption under new laws (11/9/2015 5:33:57 AM)
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ORIGINAL: MariaB
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ORIGINAL: ifmaz
I'm not entirely sure how Cameron could possibly enforce this. Even if businesses agreed to weaken encryption by handing keys to the government, nothing stops one from using GMail to send an email encrypted outside of any Google service.
Exactly. What Cameron is proposing has already been proven an impossibility in police states like Iran, so what is he up to ?
I think what he's up to is making a policy proposal that will make him look good to a certain sort of voter. He doesn't have to carry it through, he just has to look as though his 'heart is in the right place'. Much like John Major's 'Back to Basics' campaign - it doesn't have to have substance. (Ministers back then would always correct interviewers with "It's not policies it's a *theme*", whatever the hell a 'theme' is meant to be).
Cameron is just 'playing the kind of music that the punters want to hear'. Those punters are, of course, the sorts of quacking ducks who read the Mail, Express and Sun and who think 'bobbies on the beat' will save them from crime (they won't, because the world isn't like that any more; in particular, crims now *drive cars*), that stern messages from government will stop people using drugs (which they relentlessly continue not to do) ... and people who have little or no idea of how the internet works.
It's a lot of empty froth that won't go anywhere, but will keep the Tories' core support voting for them, while they get on with the much more important business of creating hard policy that enhances the bank balances of the people they *really* care about.
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