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Reality bites the UK government’s push to undermine end-to-end encryption (element.io)
submitted 1 week ago by lena@gregtech.eu to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://gregtech.eu/post/16189047

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Everybody with two functioning brain cells knows that breaking end-to-end encryption would be catastrophic. And yet those fucking morons keep coming up with the same bullshit again and again.

[–] mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But if the UK can't read everyone's communications, how will they stop 80-year-olds from sitting down in public places holding cardboard signs?

[–] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

lmao the UK has more CCTV cameras per person than almost any country on earth but somehow they still need to break encryption to "protect" us.