More like it always was, and that's the whole point, now go away.
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MI5 Argues for 'Exceptional Access' to Encrypted Messages
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They can use something else if they know it's backdoor'd. Would only compromise everyone else's security and give the government some expensive and unchecked powers.Fine, I am naive.
‘London Bridge terror attack planned on WhatsApp’
The London Bridge attackers’ use of WhatsApp, an encrypted messaging service, may have prevented the authorities from identifying the plot.The ringleader of the attack, Khuram Butt, 27, carried out his van and knife rampage with two associates despite being the subject of a live investigation bywww.thetimes.co.uk
Also, terrorists win only if we're afraid of them. Their goal is not to decrease the population by a few.
https://github.com/eVanilla/Vesta I can spin up a Whatsapp replacement in under a hour. So all normal people suffer and criminals get back to secure communications.Fine, I am naive.
‘London Bridge terror attack planned on WhatsApp’
The London Bridge attackers’ use of WhatsApp, an encrypted messaging service, may have prevented the authorities from identifying the plot.The ringleader of the attack, Khuram Butt, 27, carried out his van and knife rampage with two associates despite being the subject of a live investigation by
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Something like 60m more people in England to replace those 22. So far covid19 is fantastically more successful.
Fine, I am naive.
‘London Bridge terror attack planned on WhatsApp’
The London Bridge attackers’ use of WhatsApp, an encrypted messaging service, may have prevented the authorities from identifying the plot.The ringleader of the attack, Khuram Butt, 27, carried out his van and knife rampage with two associates despite being the subject of a live investigation by
Do you think any backdoor won't be used by totalitarian regimes against their own citizens?
Iran: World turning blind eye to crisis of mass enforced disappearance
Iranian authorities’ continued failure to disclose the fate and whereabouts of thousands of political dissidents who were forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially executed in secret during Iran’s 1988 prison massacres has sparked a crisis that for decades has been largely overlooked by the international community, said Amnesty International
Why don't you move to China, Russia, or anywhere in the Middle East and enjoy the kind of government you're advocating for?
At the moment - there isn't anything for them to crack. That's the whole point of it. If they want to get it, they need to break encryption which it's currently impractical to break.
Breaking a backdoor is easier than breaking encryption.
A backdoor accessible to MI5 would quickly be accessible to any other organization, to be used for good or for evil.
The only way to prevent its exploitation for evil is to never create the backdoor in the first place.
That genie doesn't go back in the bottle.
isn't UK one big police state already?
it is really not so much about fighting terrorism but about intercepting all contents of communication, you see.
Cry me a river. What’s become an unregulated Wild West are these agencies who feel entitled enough to think they should have access to all personal data at a moments notice.
Thanks for the historical context. But the point of my post remains.
Agree completely with your comments. That’s why I gravitate towards moderates and loathe terrified jingoists.
Sorry, but governments have never given us a reason to trust them. They have and always will abuse power. They are never forthright and perpetually work in secrecy under the guise of keeping its citizens safe. This is the heart of what divides the two major political parties in America. One side is for expanded governmental control, the other is not.
So the governments are allowed access, what next? No amount of government intrusion (not access) will prevent a human being hell bent on harming others to commit a heinous act.
So the governments are allowed access, what next? No amount of government intrusion (not access) will prevent a human being hell bent on harming others to commit a heinous act.
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No, I would want them all LEGALLY rounded up and deported because they are breaking the law and shouldn't be here. No emotion involved.
If a backdoor exists, it will also by found by foreign governments and/or spy agencies, and by organised crime anywhere in the world.
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Good old RSA, well-described in Donald Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming" around 1980, is still uncrackable with 2048 bit keys, the maths is easy enough that I can write code for encryption / decryption in a day without any references, and while it's not very efficient, it's plenty efficient enough to process (just an educated guess) 100 Kbyte to a Megabyte per second on modern phone hardware.
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Hint: If MI5 can access your details online, how long do you think will it take until hackers will get their hands on this, and use to access your banking details online?
The malware that took the NHS down not too long ago was stolen from the NSA.
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Yet people are practically strip searched at airports. There IS president for overreaching government attacks on our privacy, and so many courts have slapped them back.
No privacy for politicians if they strip it away from us.
In that specific case, the UK government has been know to help various totalitarian regimes to make people "disappear". So the distinction between "good guys" and "bad guys" is very dubious to start with.
No.
Maybe if the British Government spent more time focusing on actual crime instead of online thought crime we would trust them more
People have had criminal charges and official Police warnings for jokes and saying non-PC things like ‘transgenderism is a mental illness and shouldn’t be promoted in schools’
Yet Islamic child rape gangs responsible for hundreds of thousands of child rapes brushed under the rug.
I have absolutely zero faith in the British intelligence and justice system, putting more trust in them is absolutely out of the question.
I really hope the new conservative government can start fixing some of this mess but I have my doubts.
This is the same MI5 that murdered Dr David Kelly, the UK’s chief weapons inspector before the Iraq War. They already have one of the most extreme and pervasive intelligence gathering systems on Earth, they don’t need more power.
en.m.wikipedia.org
Maybe if the British Government spent more time focusing on actual crime instead of online thought crime we would trust them more
People have had criminal charges and official Police warnings for jokes and saying non-PC things like ‘transgenderism is a mental illness and shouldn’t be promoted in schools’
Yet Islamic child rape gangs responsible for hundreds of thousands of child rapes brushed under the rug.
I have absolutely zero faith in the British intelligence and justice system, putting more trust in them is absolutely out of the question.
I really hope the new conservative government can start fixing some of this mess but I have my doubts.
This is the same MI5 that murdered Dr David Kelly, the UK’s chief weapons inspector before the Iraq War. They already have one of the most extreme and pervasive intelligence gathering systems on Earth, they don’t need more power.
David Kelly (weapons expert) - Wikipedia
According to an article at ExtremeTech, a 4096 bit key was broken through a 'side attack' by one of the inventors of the RSA encryption scheme. One wonders if the information would still be usable after it's unencrypted/broken, but *shrug*
The secrecy/strength of the encryption is based on the sophistocation of the random number generator used.
How about Foxtrot Oscar.
The stand by companies is refreshing. A line should be drawn regarding privacy. If I have nothing to hide, then I have nothing the authorities should be poking their nose into.
How about the head of mi5 releases the personal browsing history and personal emails of all his family? I’m sure he has nothing interesting to hide so why not?
If legal intercept is the only way to catch terrorists and criminals then they are screwed......backdoors to Facebook, imessage et al will simply be an inconvenience for criminals not a showstopper.
The stand by companies is refreshing. A line should be drawn regarding privacy. If I have nothing to hide, then I have nothing the authorities should be poking their nose into.
How about the head of mi5 releases the personal browsing history and personal emails of all his family? I’m sure he has nothing interesting to hide so why not?
If legal intercept is the only way to catch terrorists and criminals then they are screwed......backdoors to Facebook, imessage et al will simply be an inconvenience for criminals not a showstopper.