It is those who make it.
“They have a system that works for billions of people all around the world. A relatively small market such as the UK is not something for which they would compromise their billions of users around the world.”
A Home Office spokesperson said: “We support strong encryption, but this cannot come at the cost of public safety. Tech companies have a moral duty to ensure they are not blinding themselves and law enforcement to the unprecedented levels of child sexual abuse on their platforms.
Ah, public safety (the French had a committee for that). As if encrypted messaging is a risk to that. If it is, it is a minuscule one, but government and the morons who make law in this country have no sense of proportion when it comes to risk. You only have to look at their catastrophic mismanagement of covid to see that.
“Where it is the only effective, proportionate and necessary action available, Ofcom will be able to direct platforms to use accredited technology, or make best endeavours to develop new technology, to accurately identify child sexual abuse content, so it can be taken down and the despicable predators brought to justice.”
Once again, these cretins demonstrate that they are ignorant of which they speak. The whole point of end-to-end encryption is that it cannot be broken. You can’t just wave some magic technological wand and make it happen without weakening the whole system, which is the point the tech companies are making. Unfortunately, they are dealing with fools. And those fools do as they always do and use a tiny minority of wrongdoers that no one will defend as an excuse to get into a system and spy on whoever they like for whatever reason they like. This is not about nonces. It never was.
and so the baddies will move off platform and install their own systems. Most have probably done so already.
You will still be able to access them using VPN and web browsers.
Hmm, they need providers to “accurately identify child sexual abuse content”, yet they seem to be totally blasé about the Rochdale grooming gang business. Right, pull the other one, Home Office Spokesperson.
High time we all started moving off platform and installing our own systems.
When the German Pedo ring was caught in 2021 or so with 400,000 subscribers, they weren’t using Telegram with embedded cryptography or whatever wibble the UK Online Safety bill is prattling on about.
Their website was hosted on the TOR network, created by the United States Naval Research Laboratory in the 1990’s to protect American intelligence communications online.
International collaboration to stop the continued development and use of TOR would be a better approach than the cockwaffle of the UK Online Safety bill.
…but that would mean a face-off with the CIA, Five Eyes and the International spook community.
“The whole point of end-to-end encryption is that it cannot be broken”
Yes LR, once you have the technology to break it, everything goes, banking, retail……….. absolutely everything. Idiots.
“We support locking doors, but this cannot come at the cost of public safety. Landlords have a moral duty to ensure they are not blinding themselves and law enforcement to the unprecedented levels of child sexual abuse in their properties.”