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The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Aye. The logical conclusion to this if left unchecked is restriction all the way down to the OS level. Don't let them take this first step. If they do, the others will follow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or even worse, locked bootloaders and a crack down on jailbreaking.