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@mikegerwitz @hattiecat Why people are not more concerned about privacy issues in the UK is a tricky one. If the recent petition to repeal the #IPact is anything to go by then there are a substantial number of people who oppose privacy violating legislation like this. At the parliamentary level though across all of the parties there is little to no opposition. In the ma…
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Any comms or infosec tech developed in the UK should now be considered untrustworthy. Bye bye UK software industry. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/30/investigatory_powers_act_backdoors/
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@hattiecat I hadn't seen that, and yes it's pretty bad. It paves the way for a possible crime of "running an unapproved encrypted communications service", or something like that. Or not giving the government enough time to review an encrypted communications service before its public release.
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@hattiecat Hard to pull this off with FOSS, and I wouldn't trust proprietary software anyways.
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@bob Just when the UK needs an export-driven industry to make up for losses due to Brexit too. Many firms have "no backdoor" procurement policies. Would you now buy a router manufactured in the UK? Or a telephone switch? Also, I wonder what the implications are for software like raspbian?
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@hattiecat @mikegerwitz There are a few factors I think:Legacy of empire. In the distant past controlling an empire probably meant knowing a lot of things about a lot of people (although not on today's scale). The culture of that among elites may have continued. The hegemonic influence of the BBC. Whatever the BBC says most people will consider to be the truth, but in …
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