UK Government set to exploit Manchester dead

[about_average]

Lovely

One of UK Prime Minister Theresa May's government ministers told a reporter from The Sun that the government is planning on invoking the "Technical Capabilities Orders" section of the Snoopers Charter, a 2016 domestic spying bill; the "orders" allow the government to demand that companies cease using working cryptography in their products and services, substituting it with deliberately defective code that can be broken.

- https://boingboing.net/2017/05/24/tories-vs-technology.html

Looks like they learned nothing from WannaCry.

No doubt the US will follow close behind.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You are against this?

Why?​

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[handysr]

What person wouldn't be against this?
I can't even see this being something that could be easily done by companies. Even if they did, shouldn't they be able to bill the government for the work eeded? How about the legal liabilities when they get hacked? The gov would be responsible, after all

 

[about_average]

What person wouldn't be against this?

I don't know, maybe any person who cares about privacy, their personal data, their money?

I can't even see this being something that could be easily done by companies. Even if they did, shouldn't they be able to bill the government for the work eeded? How about the legal liabilities when they get hacked? The gov would be responsible, after all

Oh, I see, as long as someone is "responsible" it's cool to open up everyone's data to criminals.

 

[Sean]

I'd be a bit dubious about believing any story sourced from The Sun.

 

[DeYaKen]

I'd be a bit dubious about believing any story sourced from The Sun.

This is true, they do have a history of making up the news. However, our governments also have a history of using whatever they can to rob us of our civil liberties. The information coming out now seems to indicate that the security services didn't use the powers they already have. They have admitted that the perpetrator was known to them. He was reported by members of the public, but he was dismissed as not representing a threat.

Now, I'm not blaming them, there is only so much they can do with the budgets they have. The thing is, if they don't have the time and manpower to analyse and use the information they can access now, why do they need any more?

 

[about_average]

I'd be a bit dubious about believing any story sourced from The Sun.

Do a search on Snoopers Charter + encryption