It shows you how incompetent we are as a society in the field of technological literacy. And the true problem is that although the older generation may never lean, the younger generation is just as ignorant.
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Anonymous2015-01-12 21:50
I hope they do. That would be hilarious. They would be the world's most insecure, least technically sophisticated country in the world. Online banking would be gone, online shopping dead, and your login details for websites would be there for anybody who's listening to steal. Everybody would have to revert to using typewriters and fax machines.
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Anonymous2015-01-12 22:01
>>3 I want to use a pigeon message delivery system.
>>5 Don't do it. This will get you arrested. They'll demand you decrypt it and when you can't they'll throw you in jail for being an evil terrorist who insists on having secrets.
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Anonymous2015-01-12 22:24
>>6 Zionists don't want any goyim to have secrets.
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Anonymous2015-01-12 22:26
No more HTTPS for bank logins I guess.
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Anonymous2015-01-12 22:42
You don't get it: they want to enforce bad crypto, like the NSA with the Clipper[1] chip in the mid 90's, or the NIST recommended curves. __________________ [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
Fuck, however did gov't agencies do their work before the advent of Internet? How did they manage to catch pedophiles? Nowadays they make it look like it's impossible to find criminals unless you have access to their electronic data.
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Anonymous2015-01-12 23:18
>>11 They caught them the same way they catch them today. Regular detective work. They may petition and beg for more power, but they don't need it.
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Anonymous2015-01-12 23:26
>>12 My point exactly. If they actually do their jobs professionally, they don't need access to the fucking hard drive to convict an actual criminal. Criminals tend to do something beyond just encrypting binary data, otherwise they wouldn't be criminals.
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Anonymous2015-01-13 0:01
You guys think this shit is actually about pedophiles or terrorists? lmao
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Anonymous2015-01-13 3:41
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Anonymous2015-01-13 7:20
ISIS guy 1: I know, let's use cryptography to hide our messages! ISIS guy 2: We can't, it's against the law in the UK. ISIS guy 1: Oh, OK.
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Anonymous2015-01-13 14:01
If you think that this have something to do with terrorism or pedophiles you are being extremely naive. Look at UK's porn filter for instance: as soon as it was implemented they added the CCC website to the filter! without any fucking explanation.. the GCHQ knows pretty well that pedophiles could use steganography and there would be absolutely no way to catch nor accuse anyone of distributing CP. Besides, the UK govt is full of pedophile rapist, they don't give a shit about children. And terrorist don't need cryptography to build a homemade bomb. UK have 1 CCTV camera every 11 people, and want more, because the only think that matters to them is to keep their fascist regime.
God save the Queen!
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Cudder !MhMRSATORI2015-01-13 16:19
Governments realise how powerful crypto can be, but the really disturbing part is that the people don't see when it's being used against them.
GCHQ guy 1: These WhatsApp messages appear to encrypted using a vulnerable protocol poorly designed by someone with barely any knowledge of crypography. I can break it after a week of work. GCHQ guy 2: Don't bother. We'll raid their servers in jurisdiction and hack the ones that aren't and install backdoors. GCHQ guy 3: I'm uncomfortable looking at all this cybersex. GCHQ guy 4: You're fired.
Remember when the UK used to be the world's best codebreakers? It's funny how now they're reduced to demanding everybody give them their keys instead. Oh how the mighty have fallen. Good luck demanding keys from a terrorist when terrorism charges are a life sentence and refusing to give up your key is one or two years.