I absolutely detest it when politicians are just this fuckin’ clueless. I rather hope the lot of them have their bank accounts tampered with.
I look forward to only criminals having access to encryption
Time to do steganography to talk to my friends I guess
Why? If they’ve not done anything wrong, they’ve got nothing to hide
“I need privacy not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are.” - Stéphane Bortzmeyer
That means they are.
Yep lol
And for that feat, UK will not rejoin the EU for another decade. This is a very undemocratic move the UK is doing here.
Yeah Spain’s doing the same thing though so I don’t think it’s got anything to do with the EU.
The EU is trying to do this at an EU level (and has been for years). As well as an individual country level, Sweden seems likely to pass a similar law in 2026.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/26/signal_will_withdraw_from_sweden/
https://www.wired.com/story/europe-break-encryption-leaked-document-csa-law/
I don’t have enough middle fingers. Can we just not do this crap?
Use a few bazooka fingers, maybe they’ll stop for the time being
Reducing UK security is probably not a good idea at the best of times, let alone these days with global tensions increasing.
Time for pgp then.
From now on; whenever they can’t find incriminating messages elsewhere, they will come to you. You suspicious, secret, something to hide-guy.
Everyone deserves private communication.
Let them come.
Confirmed
Welp…
Guess they don’t really need to confirm that which is blatantly obvious to the casual observer…
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