@aidan to News • 1 day agoThe UK will neither confirm nor deny that it’s killing encryptionwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square7arrow-up163arrow-down13cross-posted to: [email protected]technology
arrow-up160arrow-down1external-linkThe UK will neither confirm nor deny that it’s killing encryptionwww.theverge.com@aidan to News • 1 day agomessage-square7cross-posted to: [email protected]technology
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 day agoThey can’t actually stop encryption. Even if they outlaw it, they can’t enforce it. They can’t regulate the FOSS software market.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•21 hours agoChina cannot control software they don’t control. But a person would not be able to rely on a third party service. That’s the same everywhere, it just China. Telegram, Signal, etc, they are all able to be compromised. You have to roll your own.
minus-square@Evotechlink1•15 hours agoThey can just make it illegal to use, and with various blocksmake it difficult so 99.9% won’t or don’t know how to use it
They can’t actually stop encryption. Even if they outlaw it, they can’t enforce it. They can’t regulate the FOSS software market.
Can’t they? China does it
China cannot control software they don’t control. But a person would not be able to rely on a third party service. That’s the same everywhere, it just China. Telegram, Signal, etc, they are all able to be compromised. You have to roll your own.
They can just make it illegal to use, and with various blocksmake it difficult so 99.9% won’t or don’t know how to use it