Cameron obviously feels he missed an opportunity to destroy the UK with the secession of Scotland.
This is what you get when you have technologically illiterate career politicians. They believe that anyone inside the tent must be trustworthy and more intelligent than the rest of us.
Time to start writing a (futile) letter to my (Tory loyalist) MP.
Of course, the way headlines around here work, I just assume a headline that says âDavid Cameron will Kill Us Allâ actually means, âDavid Cameron will Mildly Inconvenience Professional Authorsâ or something.
It would be instructive, if impossible, to study what percentage of secure communications are originated by terrorists, by other criminals, by industrial users, and by security geeks. Without any evidence at all, Iâm willing to bet the âbad guysâ account for less than 1%, maybe two if you include dissidents.
Yeah, then we can outlaw only that 1% terrorist communications (or 2%, if you include dissidents). Itâs so simple!
(My emph). Do you include the 1%? I think they have minions to do their communications for them.
Like most Conservative policy it is unworkable, ethically inexcusable, ideologically driven and palpably theoretically flawed to anyone with even a passing knowledge of the subject. But as with Conservative policy on immigration and austerity, itâs not about trying to find knowledge-driven, practical solutions to perceived problems, itâs about trying to generate enough easily-digested headlines to ensure that they and their cronies can continue to asset strip the country for another five years.
Itâs a terrible piece of legislation but as a piece of Politics, itâs outstanding, if so incredibly cynical it makes me embarrassed to have chosen this username.
The good news is that this would have a side effect of banning DRM. So thereâs thatâŚ
As a somewhat impertinent aside to Cory, could you submit this to the Guardian if you havenât already done so, please? Youâre preaching to the choir here but their current analysis is dominated by the sort of pro-privacy arguments that are easily dismissed by shouts of âbut terrorists and paedophiles!â and very little analysis of why this is such a monumentally stupid idea from a technological standpointâŚ
I can never quite decide if Cameron is dumb enough that he achieves a life outside of an assisted-living scenario purely through malice and low cunning; whether there is, in fact, a terrifyingly-state-power-backed childish wish fulfillment fantasy running 24/7 behind that gormless, squishy, face to the exclusion of all else; or whether heâs sharp enough but has deliberately bound himself to a depraved mockery of epistemology where the only truths are poll projections and power.
My money is on #3; but I can never quite shake the other two.
I think you have it all wrong.
What the esteemed David Cameron is proposing is that we implement the oft-neglected RFC3514
Good article.
But Cameron is doing the only thing he can do in response. Talk big and sound tough. He cant talk about foreign policy because its in total tatters.
We cannot ever stop soft target terrorism. The mere fact that there has been so few incidents is a result of how few extremists there are and not because counter terrorism stops them.
The real underlying issue now is that of foreign policy and whether the world is becoming safer or more unsafe because of it.
Would ISIS and AL Qaeda be as strong now if we hadnât invaded Iraq and Afghanistan or drone attacked Yemen and Pakistan for years? Even the republican far right rhetoric is changing on the subject!
Seconded, Cynical. Cory, please please submit this, or a version of it, to a broadsheet.
That would be nice. But I suspect the opposite is true. If you can look at every packet and identify the content, then you can then enforce DRM. In fact, it is probably easier to recognize the same content then to identify new content, so we will get the ability to enforce DRM before we do anything about terrorism, if indeed we ever do.
Cheer up, though. It is well known that piracy costs each one of us every second more than the entire motion picture industry made over the last 100 years. If we stop wholesale theft of copies of Disneyâs âFrozenâ, weâll all be richâŚ
Yeah. RightâŚ
Turns out The Guardian has already got it covered, to an extent: Cameron wants to ban encryption â he can say goodbye to digital Britain | James Ball | The Guardian
âŚanyone want to bet we wonât see similar analysis anywhere in the Murdoch press or on the âunbiasedâ BBC?
Thatâs a good article. I also like Coryâs point about hobbling computers so they canât run naughty software - but itâs tough to put that on a protest sign or explain it to grampa.
Iâm surprised this article doesnât come with bookstore-like recommendations: âOther users also read 1984â
Is âCharlieâ a slang term for âgreat steaming shiny headed turdâ?
This should be a mandatory reading for those who still think that they donât need an easy way to root their phones, and who still believe that delegating the decisionmaking about what they can and cannot run on their devices, without a choice to opt-out, is a good idea.
