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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.
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UK Wants to Ban Unbreakable Encryption, Log which Websites You Visit
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Don't read any sky-writing for the next two weeks.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by bradley13 on Wednesday November 04 2015, @04:02PM
Is this what the former British Empire has come to? Pathetic...
As I recall, some thirty eight classes of agencies are intended to have access to the data, all the way down to local councils (i.e. local town governments). The justification for the legislation is, of course, fighting serious crimes like terrorism and child porn. However, in actual fact, access granted for simple crime prevention and a host of other reasons. In a nutshell: basically anyone can look at the data for any reason.
If this passes, and I were in the UK, I would immediately set up an encrypted proxy to some server outside the country, and route everything that way. With AWS, this is dead easy. Put your server in Ireland, or in Germany, and tell the UK government to fob off.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04 2015, @09:04PM
They will find you and put you in jail for violating their laws.
This is not a game like sidestepping DRM where you upset a recording studio. They will charge you with data crime laws, conspiracy to commit terrorism, and any number of fabricated charges to frighten those with the skills to do so to not do so OR LEAVE.
If they get the people who can do this to leave, then by proxy only the criminals who can will be the ones remaining that are doing it. Merely exercising your non-existent right to privacy can have you thrown into solitary confinement and you can be private for 23 hours a day. The wikileaks guy will appear to be luxuriously free in comparison.