Snoopers Charter: Dead cows don't snitch
This same state is, of course, the one demanding that to"protect children," it should get access to whatever encrypted citizen communication it likes via the Online Safety Bill, which is now rumored to be going through British Parliament in October. This is akin to giving an alcoholic uncle the keys to every booze shop in town to"protect children": you will find Uncle in a drunken coma with the doors wide open and the stock disappearing by the vanload.
That assumes the best case scenario, where the deliberately weakened encryption needed for state access somehow resists attack by others. In practice, as those whohave said at endless length, it is impossible to guarantee or even expect this. Companies which don't deliberately compromise user security will be fined – hence Signal, WhatsApp and others have said they'd leave the UK rather than comply.
It is just stupidity stacked on incompetence balanced on political Dunning Krugerism, and the advent of Veilid drowns the lot in a tidal wave of foetid futility. What can a government do about a framework? What can it do about open source? The idea behind Veilid is to add end-to-end, peer-to-peer encrypted functionality to any app that can use it, which by itself is a force multiplier for privacy.
Software doesn't have to work like that, as users of open source audio and video tools already know. Codecs can come encumbered with patent and licence fees that exclude them from shipping with FOSS products. Make them external, optional libraries, and the FOSS product can ship and user install the libraries themselves. Those libraries aren't functional products until that point, which makes them trickier to attack legally.
The only way to outlaw encryption is to outlaw encryption. Anything less will fail, as it is always possible in software to create kits of parts, all legal by themselves, that can be linked together to provide encryption with no single entity to legislate against. Our industry is fully aware of this. Criminals know it too. Ordinary people will learn it as well, if they have to. This information is free to everyone – except the politicians, it seems. For them, reality is far too expensive.
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