I wondered when this go to point would come up as it's the typical thing to fall back to and it's absolute rubbish.CasRus wrote:Hey Matt, so let me get this straight, you would rather have private encryption protected while the top IS clever branch are in the future planning to release a radioactive dirty bomb into western society which is their intention and not too far away from happening with all the uranium available in Russia which some has already gone missing for a "Fee" !!
I understand all about privacy but if it's to do with mass murder, then there is a case of trying to intercept before it happens. If there is a way to belt and brace covert encrpted messages of this nature, then it should be done. If you aren't in agreement then you are aren't living in the real world when this scum is prepared to die to bring us down - Just demonstrates they have the suicide nutters capable of doing this these past few weeks and will go to any lengths or have you been snoring and sleepwalking to realise this ?
Private encryption has been around for a very very long time all the way back before the internet existed to serve one purpose - keep things private. The internet relies VERY heavily on encryption and it is a fundamental part of how it works - breaking it because some "terrorist" may be using it for a certain reason is the same as saying all vans on the road should be banned as they can be used to drive into people.
I am living in the real world - saying we should break fundamentals just on the hope we may intercept some chatter isn't the correct way of approaching the situation and it's just fear tactics to gain more control of the citizens (it's on the same lines of North Korea and China - monitoring everything and stopping certain content from being accessed).
It simply WILL NOT WORK, do you really think implementing it would make the country safer - NO. They'd move to services outside of the jurisdiction of the UK or other methods and then we're left with gaping holes in the core structure and people will find them (sure you'd love it if they used a backdoor to empty every bank account which is more than feasible).
This is simply just another way to collect data just as the ISP logging for a year is and use it against every day people. Yet people stand there and say "well I have nothing to hide" - that's crap, it doesn't matter if you have nothing to hide it's basic privacy.
No doubt you're a person who shouts "think of the children" too when the government wants to restrict certain content from being accessed rather than actual parenting being applied / monitoring their usage.
I'm going to leave it there - maybe go research before you reply.