David Cameron wants to ban encryption
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Well, that's not really what he is saying, even though it appears so. But, as usual, a knee-jerk response tends to sound pretty silly.
It's not entirely, knee jerk response. Governments want to control message encryption to a certain degree; that is fact, not fiction.
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What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton and destroy the IT industry[^]... Has he lost the plot completely?
It's a good thing I am going to be soon releasing a piece of steganography software I have written. The sunshines won't have a clue how files are encrypted within images, even if they get hold of the source code.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton and destroy the IT industry[^]... Has he lost the plot completely?
What a tit he is. Really. The problem with the Paris incident is the failure of the French to surveil these people despite them being known affiliates of terrorists. That, was a stupid mistake to make.
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What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton and destroy the IT industry[^]... Has he lost the plot completely?
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:
Has he lost the plot completely?
No. In order to lose it, he'd need to have had it in the first place.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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He's absolutely right, of course. I mean, a couple of men with guns killed some people in another country, so our only possible response is to give up more of our civil liberties. Why are you having such trouble seeing the obvious?
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ehhhh, it makes a nice change from: BAN ALL THE THINGS FOR THE CHILDRENZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11eleventyone111!!11
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:
Has he lost the plot completely?
No. In order to lose it, he'd need to have had it in the first place.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
A friend of mine back in the UK, who is very politically aware, said this not long after Cameron got elected: "From time-to-time the electorate makes choices that you don't politically agree with; that's democracy. But when they elect an incompetent administration ..."
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton and destroy the IT industry[^]... Has he lost the plot completely?
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What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton and destroy the IT industry[^]... Has he lost the plot completely?
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What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton and destroy the IT industry[^]... Has he lost the plot completely?
Sorry, that ship has sailed.
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He should have retired after he made Titanic.
We won't sit down. We won't shut up. We won't go quietly away. YouTube and My Mu[sic], Films and Windows Programs, etc.
GenJerDan wrote:
He should have retired after he made Titanic.
He should have retired after before he made Titanic.
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What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton and destroy the IT industry[^]... Has he lost the plot completely?
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What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton and destroy the IT industry[^]... Has he lost the plot completely?
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What a tit he is. Really. The problem with the Paris incident is the failure of the French to surveil these people despite them being known affiliates of terrorists. That, was a stupid mistake to make.
Sign a petition calling for the boycott of Israel until it returns to its legal 1967 borders.
One explanation I heard for that dropping of surveillance was to reduce expenses.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton and destroy the IT industry[^]... Has he lost the plot completely?
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton and destroy the IT industry[^]... Has he lost the plot completely?
Not really, as encryption is becoming more and more irrelevant. Even AES256 can be broken in a rather trivial manner with multiple programmable GPU's. Every message should be readable? A more correct statement would be every message is readable with a little bit of knowledge and the right hardware.
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It's not entirely, knee jerk response. Governments want to control message encryption to a certain degree; that is fact, not fiction.
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One explanation I heard for that dropping of surveillance was to reduce expenses.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton and destroy the IT industry[^]... Has he lost the plot completely?
David Cameron is an BUnLQyVPaM72bzAb3coSNPv2iOK8wkgVZ2sooIOVTMk= And yes, that is real, and yes, it is rude.
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Not really, as encryption is becoming more and more irrelevant. Even AES256 can be broken in a rather trivial manner with multiple programmable GPU's. Every message should be readable? A more correct statement would be every message is readable with a little bit of knowledge and the right hardware.
Maybe, but if Zetabytes of encrypted data are produced, how are they going to know which bits are of interest without decrypting the lot before they do their data mining?
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Maybe, but if Zetabytes of encrypted data are produced, how are they going to know which bits are of interest without decrypting the lot before they do their data mining?
Quite simply, they can't. Not without some seriously hard-core distributed computing and analytics going on under the hood, where each node is capable of decrypting and sifting through several terabytes of data at any given moment. A tall order even for a government. The question then becomes what does one do with the data, according to Seagate we will have collectively produced some 44 Zetabytes of data by the year 2020. The limits of data storage across the globe, according to Seagate, will have been reached around the same time. Past that point, your guess is as good as mine. Cameron and others will have to come up with some other form of police state.
