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The UK is Trying to Outlaw Encryption (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Remontoire to c/privacy
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In this video he discusses how the United Kingdoms "Online Safety Act" would require tech companies to implement backdoors into their encryption algorithms in order to comply with requirements to do proactive scanning for illegal content.

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[–] hark 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The UK government is a never-ending source of stupidity, huh?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yep. They don't even realize these backdoors, or 'safety nets' as they call it, can and will be used by nefarious actors.

[–] Rooki 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just hope it doesnt spread to other countries. Its like a disease of "encryption" == "bad"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Germany is trying this for a while now. We keep fighting back and managed to hold it at bay, but the SPD and CDU keep bringing it back to the table. I fear one day they will have their will.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Didn't they make a Johnny English movie about this?

[–] Jmr 3 points 1 year ago

Yep where he goes all analog.

[–] Rooki 2 points 1 year ago

I think so too!