The headline: What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton
and destroy the IT industry
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David Cameron says there should be no "means of communication" which "we cannot read" -- and no doubt many in his party will agree with him, politically. But if they understood the technology, they would be shocked to their boots.
What David Cameron thinks he's saying is, "We will command all the software creators we can reach to introduce back-doors into their tools for us." There are enormous problems with this: there's no back door that only lets good guys go through it. If your Whatsapp or Google Hangouts has a deliberately introduced flaw in it, then foreign spies, criminals, crooked police (like those who fed sensitive information to the tabloids who were implicated in the hacking scandal -- and like the high-level police who secretly worked for organised crime for years), and criminals will eventually discover this vulnerability. They -- and not just the security services -- will be able to use it to intercept all of our communications. That includes things like the pictures of your kids in your bath that you send to your parents to the trade secrets you send to your co-workers.
But this is just for starters. David Cameron doesn't understand technology very well, so he doesn't actually know what he's asking for.
For David Cameron's proposal to work, he will need to stop Britons from installing software that comes from software creators who are out of his jurisdiction. The very best in secure communications are already free/open source projects, maintained by thousands of independent programmers around the world. They are widely available, and thanks to things like cryptographic signing, it is possible to download these packages from any server in the world (not just big ones like Github) and verify, with a very high degree of confidence, that the software you've downloaded hasn't been tampered with.
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Read the full story here:
http://boingboing.net/2015/01/13/what-david-cameron-just-propos.html
Understand here that ~what~ the No.10 Downing Street dullard is proposing, would EXPOSE virtually =ALL= private communications via the Internet to just =EVERY= DATA PIRATE.
Yes: If YOU conduct ~any~ online banking, or other related commercial activity which requires a user ID, & Password, then =ALL= OF YOUR DETAILS, including log-in passwords will become known to EVERYONE!!!!
And —DO— think about this: If you use either a debit card, or credit card to make a purchase at whatever business, ALL OF THAT INFORMATION also becomes TOTALLY OPEN to anyone with the ability to tap the method of communications.
And hey: THAT would ALL be =TOTALLY= legal!!!!! When ALL communications are MANDATED to be public, then NO communication is allowed to be private.
"When everyone is guilty, it thence becomes a crime to be innocent." Anon.
Finally, attempting to use secure search engines such as StartPage would be blocked, effectively blocking you from reaching ANY URL which has been blackballed otherwise, regardless of its content.
You boys, and girls in the U.K. =DIRELY NEED= to STIFLE that crap POSTHASTE!!!!
Next, we really must remove this idiot from power the soonest.
Excerpt:
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David Cameron says there should be no "means of communication" which "we cannot read" -- and no doubt many in his party will agree with him, politically. But if they understood the technology, they would be shocked to their boots.
What David Cameron thinks he's saying is, "We will command all the software creators we can reach to introduce back-doors into their tools for us." There are enormous problems with this: there's no back door that only lets good guys go through it. If your Whatsapp or Google Hangouts has a deliberately introduced flaw in it, then foreign spies, criminals, crooked police (like those who fed sensitive information to the tabloids who were implicated in the hacking scandal -- and like the high-level police who secretly worked for organised crime for years), and criminals will eventually discover this vulnerability. They -- and not just the security services -- will be able to use it to intercept all of our communications. That includes things like the pictures of your kids in your bath that you send to your parents to the trade secrets you send to your co-workers.
But this is just for starters. David Cameron doesn't understand technology very well, so he doesn't actually know what he's asking for.
For David Cameron's proposal to work, he will need to stop Britons from installing software that comes from software creators who are out of his jurisdiction. The very best in secure communications are already free/open source projects, maintained by thousands of independent programmers around the world. They are widely available, and thanks to things like cryptographic signing, it is possible to download these packages from any server in the world (not just big ones like Github) and verify, with a very high degree of confidence, that the software you've downloaded hasn't been tampered with.
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Read the full story here:
http://boingboing.net/2015/01/13/what-david-cameron-just-propos.html
Understand here that ~what~ the No.10 Downing Street dullard is proposing, would EXPOSE virtually =ALL= private communications via the Internet to just =EVERY= DATA PIRATE.
Yes: If YOU conduct ~any~ online banking, or other related commercial activity which requires a user ID, & Password, then =ALL= OF YOUR DETAILS, including log-in passwords will become known to EVERYONE!!!!
And —DO— think about this: If you use either a debit card, or credit card to make a purchase at whatever business, ALL OF THAT INFORMATION also becomes TOTALLY OPEN to anyone with the ability to tap the method of communications.
And hey: THAT would ALL be =TOTALLY= legal!!!!! When ALL communications are MANDATED to be public, then NO communication is allowed to be private.
"When everyone is guilty, it thence becomes a crime to be innocent." Anon.
Finally, attempting to use secure search engines such as StartPage would be blocked, effectively blocking you from reaching ANY URL which has been blackballed otherwise, regardless of its content.
You boys, and girls in the U.K. =DIRELY NEED= to STIFLE that crap POSTHASTE!!!!
Next, we really must remove this idiot from power the soonest.
Regards,
John
"As nightfall does not come at once,
neither does oppression.,
In both instances, there is a twilight,
when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we all must become most
aware of a change in the air, however slight,-lest we become unwitting victims of the
Darkness".
Justice William
O.Douglas
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