David Cameron wants to ban encryption

Richard Deeming

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.

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Dan Neely

ehhhh, it makes a nice change from: BAN ALL THE THINGS FOR THE CHILDRENZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11eleventyone111!!11

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

PhilLenoir

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 ..."

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KarstenK

Not really - he only wants to read your messaging :~

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GenJerDan

He should have retired after he made Titanic.

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PIEBALDconsult

Sorry, that ship has sailed.

Nemanja Trifunovic

GenJerDan wrote:

He should have retired after he made Titanic.

He should have retired after before he made Titanic.

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Lost User

I'd say the last few PM's we've had have probably been amongst the worst this country's ever seen. The next one isn't looking great either :(

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Sander Rossel

If your password is difficult enough you don't need encryption anyway! :D

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W Balboos GHB

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

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Epft uibu nfbo J'n jo uspvcmf?

"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

Member 4724084

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.

Leo56

True. It's WHY they want to control it that concerns me...

Simon ORiordan from UK

David Cameron is an BUnLQyVPaM72bzAb3coSNPv2iOK8wkgVZ2sooIOVTMk= And yes, that is real, and yes, it is rude.

Leo56

Your first quote sums up Cameron so perfectly....

Simon ORiordan from UK

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?

Member 4724084

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.

Simon ORiordan from UK

So, like with bit torrents, he wants to eliminate the average traffic and cherry-pick victims as and when from what remains. Cynical tiG3zDrNg/0XFrVtUwttyg== isn't he. He's persecuting grandma so he can victimise the savvy at leisure. Nice. Incidentally, whenever one gets ripped off by DVD vendors (lack of sound, 4:3 aspect ratio, wrong zone, encryption won't work), one can fire up Tails os and navigate to any torrent site, then one download the torrent file and run it from Windoze, no problem. Instant recovery of one's property, no need for snail mail returns, no need to spend more money trying to recover one's money, and of course, one gets what one paid for in the first place. Not that I ever would of course. Cheers!

Member 4281566

Perhaps GCHQ would like to drop all their encrypted transmissions. What's David's thoughts on that?

Lost User

Pro Tip: Politicians aren't in the game for your benefit.