US.GOV to UK.GOV: Get lost, punk:
The Home Office's war on encryption – its most technically complex and controversial aspect of modern policymaking yet – is starting to look like battlefield failure after more than ten years of skirmishes.
First tabled by former prime minister David Cameron in 2015 following a terrorist shooting at the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, vague wording alluded to a potential ban in the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.
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However, it seems Home Office staff are now coming to terms with the fact that the Trump administration will block any attempt to further strongarm Amercia's tech companies.
Insiders told the Financial Times, speaking on condition of anonymity, that the Trump administration's disapproval of the UK's plans, which the president has previously likened to Chinese-style policymaking, is the main obstacle in achieving its encryption-busting ambitions.
Being compared to Red China* has got to hurt. But you know how not to get compared to Red China? Don't act like Red China.
Remember, Government mandated encryption backdoors are a bad idea. Really.
* I only use the term to bother the Right Sort of people.
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The term "West Taiwan" (which I first saw on the YouTube channel "Habitual Linecrosser") is also acceptable.
Anyone who thinks that the Really Bad Guys couldn't figure out how to break into the backdoor has to be smoking crack.
Worse than the addlepated drunken fed who made us change the exit numbers.
People who believe that backdoors won't be accessed by bad actors are the same people who think the stripper really likes them.
FUSA INC is becoming the new Red ChyyyNAH.
The UK government IS the bad actor. It's time to start treating them as a hostile power.
@Comrade Misfit, really the only backdoor that lasted for a bit was when NSA weakened the keys in the elliptic curve ciphers. But they got busted within (IIRC) 10 years or so. Nothing stays secret.
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