Tyranny of the government: UK Government to force handover of encryption keys

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Not even news here. No one cares. If you want to go into another hissy fit Richard, the Treasury is currently raiding bank accounts and so on that have been inactive for decades. A lot of money is some of them apparently.

And c.300,000 people from Poland have moved here over the past few years.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

RIP seems like an appropriate name. Individual rights, Rest In Peace.

What individual rights are affected here? The right to look at child porn? To commit fraud?
The legislation passed a bit too long ago for a self-righteous hissy fit, btw.

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Why? Not only is no one upset, but no one actually cares. Not heard any mention of this in the media for one thing.

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Ever actually read 1984?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

There is no such thing as the Labor Party.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Al go and change your tampon.

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Because I don't like paying higher taxes as a result of fraud/tax evasion, because I don't like child abuse and because I don't like terrorism.

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Common sense says that it's more likely than if data is not encrypted.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Actually, no.  Common sense does not say that to me.

That's because you don't have any.

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So?

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The Government would only have access to those files if they have a reason to suspect that something dodgy is going on.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

You'd trust someone like your own government to decide that?

Yes

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Wouldn't make any difference on this sort of thing; the Civil Service (and thus the machinary of Government) is politically neutral.

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Start of what?

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Not really true.

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Why the inverted commas? We've had a problem with terrorism since the '70's. Quite a lot of people were killed by terrorists in London last year in case you've forgotton...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Wait... you don't like terrorism now? What made you change your mind?

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Because being able to get keys for encypted stuff would be far more likely to prevent terrorism than racial profiling (which Richard supports)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Well so would shooting everybody dead. Or squatting a fly. Or toppling a bag of rice in China.

Haha

I've been confused for a terrorist by some bigoted moron or other about ten or so times this year, btw...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Really? How come?

Almost certainly because I have dark hair and a beard.