SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
An Anonymous Coward has submitted the following:
The UK government will tomorrow publish draft legislation to regulate the use of encryption and require ISPs to log which websites their customers visit for a year. The government has previously expressed irritation at the idea of some communications being out of government reach. There is an (inevitably toothless) petition.
The silver lining is perhaps that the government still cannot comprehend that not all secure communications involve a communications provider. The government appears to be using the door in the face technique, making the bill as over the top as possible so they can appear to compromise later.
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
UK Wants to Ban Unbreakable Encryption, Log which Websites You Visit
|
Log In/Create an Account
| Top
| 22 comments
| Search Discussion
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
Grelb's Reminder:
Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above
average drivers.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 04 2015, @02:38PM
I've got a log for them - they better get it quick before I flush.
WTF does anyone put up with this crap? I mean, even if you grew up in a country where the crown can put you in prison for stupid crap, WTF put up with it? Have yourselvses a nice little revolution, and tell the successors they better learn a lesson.
Maybe I'm just a violent man. If I were a black guy living in New York City, I'd have been trying to organize an insurrection when Stop and Frisk was put into effect. That's it, I'm just a violent person.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 04 2015, @03:23PM
The UK exported all the people that would think of such a thing a long time ago. Those people did have a little revolution and formed the United States, though where all their descendants have gone since then is a mystery. Meanwhile back in the UK the Scots had an excellent opportunity to break away from the crown and they didn't even have to pick up a weapon or shed a drop of blood, but they demurred.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @11:04AM
"WTF does anyone put up with this crap?"
Human beings don't have any free will.
See the science on human reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ [youtube.com]