It's more of a moronic issue, our left wing parties in the UK are not quite as moronic as the right wing ones though.
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UK Parliamentary Bill Would Require Backdoors in Electronic Devices
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It's more of a moronic issue, our left wing parties in the UK are not quite as moronic as the right wing ones though.
Not sure what this has to do with right wing/ left wing politics. Some of the most oppressive governments in the world; most dangerous leaders have been and are left wing. A persons political leanings does not necessarily guarantee they favor civil liberties. After all Margaret Thatcher voted to decriminalize homosexuality while Che Guevara, a left wing icon, tortured and murdered them. Stalin is infamous for his brutal purges of anyone who spoke against him. Pol Pot enslaved and murdered millions in the name of his leftist "government" cause.
Meanwhile in the U.S. there are politicians of the left and right both for and against forcing Apple or any other company to provide a backdoor.
There would be no iphone without UK.
You know that guy Jony Ive who has had a major influence on every ios device released, hes English.
Also ARM is a UK company, every mobile device in the world pretty much carries an ARM chip.
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Watch how many shift to the dark web and fall off the grid completely. I keep telling people that law enforcement is so reliant on the tech to do their jobs that falling off the grid these days is easier than ever. Cash only jobs and burn phones would pretty much be all you need.
I mean, it's the UK government. They're as technologically hopeless as a brick. And that's an insult to the brick.
edit: to clarify this, I know of ARM. I know of the Raspberry Pi. I know all that. I'm talking about the government. Not all Brits are bricks. Just a couple of them. Too bad those bricks run the country, but that's generally the case with governments.
edit: to clarify this, I know of ARM. I know of the Raspberry Pi. I know all that. I'm talking about the government. Not all Brits are bricks. Just a couple of them. Too bad those bricks run the country, but that's generally the case with governments.
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Agreed. Every major IT project the UK government has attempted has gone down in flames. The UK government does not understand technology, but then again what does the electorate expect when they elect idiots?
She's already done that, in the key points factsheet for the Targeted Electronic Interference part:
Factsheet said:
Good luck running your smartphone without that British designed ARM chip lol
Looks like we will have to go through 1984 to get to Star Trek 
Hey, we brought the world the Raspberry Pi. Something worth mentioning, today, Pi day - 14/03...
The problem is, they have grandiose ideas, such as an integrated computer system linking up all hospitals and doctors, so that your medical history is available to any medic wherever you are, when its needed, but its put out to tender and the lowest bid is accepted, which is usually from someone who's doing a cheap job rather than a good job. Then the corner cutting becomes obvious, and it doesn't work as desired, so it gets scrapped, than the same process gets repeated.
As for 'idiots', sadly, the only alternative is a party led by Jeremy "never met a terrorist I didn't like" Corbyn. Jihadi Jezza as he's become known.
the only real solution is for companies to refuse to sell their devices if any of these bills become law. they may actually HAVE to. and only sell their backdoor-enabled devices to politicians and leaders, see how long it takes until the first inevitable sex-scandal or disseminated classified info from THEIR devices kills a bunch of innocents.
mcafee had a great quote recently about how the US gov won't keep up with tech because "they refuse to hire someone who shows up to work with a giant pink mohawk" (or something to that effect), thus eliminating the unique individuals who do the best job.
so, are there any governments who do it right yet?
Well; that's nice isn't it?
A little lacking in transparency if they're trying to get something through simply to hide the quantity and extent of snooping being performed. Gives me the warm fuzzies knowing that they're being so considerate of the rights and privacy of the individual citizens.
The moronic electorate even voted against reforming the voting system!
Because the proposed change was to AV rather than PR. Alternative vote ("everyone gets what nobody wants") was rightly rejected, PR would have stood a chance of getting through, and we wouldn't have seen mockery FPTP gave us with the SNP and UKIP imbalance in the last election.
AV as shown on Auf Widershen, Pet!
The UK is small and insignificant and George Orwell was its smartest son. He warned everybody what their national character would give birth to and yet somehow they selected his dystopian future as their own. Can't stop what's coming, even if you know it's going to be bad. Very bad.
#BREXIT2016
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The UK is a pretty huge market (and as others have mentioned the technologies and design of the iPhone are rooted here), Apple are not going to just pack up and leave. They and other tech companies will likely and rightly fight heavily this if it comes close to passing, just as they are in the US.
I don't see the bill passing, however all this does is highlight the ignorant and vile woman that is Theresa May. This is a woman who wants every British citizen's internet history to be recorded and accessible by the government, but won't release her own when asked lawfully to do so. How worrying that she's in charge of our country's security.
