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Boys... When it's considered a hostle act to demand rights, ownership, and privacy... We have a problem.
wtf is going on in the UK??
Absolutely insanity.
Truly. This global push towards mass surveillance is extremely alarming.
Pervasive surveillance is a hostile act. Abetting genocide and other crimes against humanity is a hostile act. Serving the rich at the expense of the poor is a hostile act.
It's a kingdom. They have a certain old dicksucker as a king. And they, importantly, don't have any historical or current reservations about things you listed, fortified by documents.
Well many governments see their citizens as hostile actors, so its not really a change, is it?
If you don’t want your citizens to be hostile, don’t make yourself an enemy.
PGP has been around since the 90's can you PLEASE shut the fuck up.
Like please.
What the heck is happening with Europe in general? I thought they were better in terms of maintaining individual privacy, damm.
That's europe, this is just UK. Brexit didn't work out in a lot of ways they planned
I'd argue it worked exactly as intended.
The goal is to weaken the West by destabilizing our nations' and organizations they belong to. They payed so much money for it that they bought into peerage.
Then explain Denmark
Tbh at this point I have zero faith in any country when they will just flip no one knows.
Let's be hostile together then
What the fuck happened to the UK? Is Trump president there too?
Meta happened. UK, US, all over the world there is a correlation between the adoption of Meta's products and the corrosion of basic human rights.
The right wing fascism wave is a world trend my guy. This is just the start.
Remember how, before the internet, intelligence agencies by default didn't know what anyone was saying to anyone else face to face or by mail, and had to actually work to find out? The country didn't fall apart. Why is the standard now that everything must be handed to them on a plate? Did they just get lazy?
You'll love this!
I deployed an open-source chat system at work, just for convenience. Boss was concerned that it didn't do any logging and we couldn't tell who said what.
"You don't have any records of what we say verbally. What's the difference?"
"...Oh. Well, you're right."
He was coming from a legit concern. We didn't point fingers when someone screwed up, zero blame, but we needed to know exactly what happened so we could fix it.
They cut costs by firing the people doing the legwork and passed the savings along to billionaires who promised sustainable models. Now they can't hire people to do real legwork anymore because, "no one wants to work anymore for their grandparents' wage in an economy and society designed to turn people into voluntary slaves and the only way to escape is to become homeless and go off the grid, but the laws are being molded to prevent anyone from escaping the system."
I'm pretty sure that's how the old adage goes.
I'm not disagreeing with you but what would happen back then is that they simply wouldn't stop the crime.
At some point we need to decide if giving up all semblance of personal privacy is worth stopping some of that. I vote no enthusiastically. We just have to accept that some of that crime won't be stopped and law enforcement will have to work harder.
If our countries could stop doing things that give people a reason to commit terroristic acts, Maybe that would solve some of it and we could be more secure in our papers and possessions without unlawful interference and undue search and seizures but that’s apparently none of my business
The elite know what's coming. There isn't enough to keep economic growth going and sacrifices will have to be made, and that's not going to be the top. That means something is needed to detect and remove "problems" before they get big.
They don't even stop significantly more crime now... They simply invent new "crimes" and jerk each other off for keeping the streets safe from that minority eating their lunch or going for a walk.
This isn't a new concept by any means. The argument of crime prevention has been used since governments existed to strip rights
Welcome to New East Germany.
Doesn't even RCS and iMessages use E2EE?
I think most messaging apps these days have it. Allegedly even Discord (calls only, not text chat) has it.
I think part of this is lawmakers not understanding the gravity of what they’re suggesting. Besides, most of these apps have some sort of backdoor built-in so they can decrypt messages if required in legal proceedings. Ripping E2EE out of everything is an insane assertion to make, and would make the Internet an even more dangerous place than it already is.
Most definitely this.
Most lawmakers don't understand even the surface level nuances of messaging and encryption. All they see is a communication solution that can potentially be used by bad faith actors without any possible oversight by the intelligence services.
There needs to be a watchdog for the watchdog, because this is totally unacceptable for a official to be this out of the loop on the technology they are watching over.
If they are a professional they should have some clue as to what is going on, but instead they're listening to their fascist pals.
These guys are so fucking stupid. Security and privacy goes both ways. Either for people to use or not. If you don't want encryption, fine, your online banking doesn't work anymore
And i think committing and/or assisting in genocides is 'hostile activity'. One of us is definitely wrong :)
Wow, the UK sounds like an awful place.
I thought we were unique in this but frankly everywhere in the "western" world is talking about the same things. EU has chat control, Australia has similar efforts, USA aren't pushing for privacy at all so it's not a uniquely British problem.
Agreed, but Australia and the UK are way ahead of the rest.
It first starts with the "children" or the "bad actors/terrorists" and ends with a straight up fascist police state.
I don't know about you guys but this feels like a reverse psychology psyop to increase the usage of these two apps. There are a ton more e2ee chat messengers, but they point to the only two apps using the signal protocol. Maybe they're sitting on some 0-day exploits?
But if you want to believe the surveillance government at face value then go right ahead.
Folks, "1984" was supposed to be a warning. Not an instruction manual, with check off items.
Off topic but does the UK still have the death penalty for treason? Just wondering.
Stamer is running a social experiment, see how many people worldwide can hate him in the least amount of time possible. Everything he and his goons do is double down constantly on shit nobody wants.
You may think they're idiots who pass Reform's laws for them, but you are wrong! They also pass Conservative laws!
