UK defends plan to demand access to encrypted messages to protect children

Notes from my 5 years in China: - Use a protocol like trojan-gfw over cloudflare. It 1: hides the fact that you’re using a VPN and looks like normal https traffic, 2: Is open source and the Trojan-go/v2ray repositories are well tested in nightmarish environments like China. 3: Cloudfare obscures the IP address of your server from the government. - You can have your server use something like Mullvad so that your traffic blends into the crowd (of customers) - Always have an emergency protocol that is unlikely to get blocked. I wrote my own custom implementation of HTTPS over DNS for when they decide to cut off general internet access to sites outside the country. (Happens every month or so for a few days) - For messaging, use a fully open source & end to end encrypted & federated protocol that you can self host. Matrix.org is blocked in China but self hosting still allows you to contact people on the main server.

This just isn't credible.

"Low level" crime is essentially legalised because Police has been defunded and demoralised. If someone reports abuse, most likely it will be dismissed until the risk for reaching tabloid headline is too high. Then they'll need evidence, ideally case completely "solved", before they even start doing anything.

So that tells me the purpose for this law isn't protection of children, because the government couldn't care less about children welfare, as government is engaging themselves in abuse by running down the economy and forcing thousands of children to go hungry.

If one could make the argument that the police force was 1)staffed with smart, moral, motivated, and well trained individuals, and 2) had adequate capacity and resources to pursue these crimes, and the only thing standing in their way was encryption, I’d at least be willing to entertain the conversation, but since little emphasis seems to be placed and 1&2, it’s hard to take this line of argument seriously.

There's nothing in that book you couldn't justify with "think of the children".

It seems that, as usual, the only way to escape tyranny is emigration, but I worry one day we'll run out of freer countries to emigrate to.

The delusional belief that you can back door crypto without breaking it, and the willingness of reporters to regurgitate nonsense remains obnoxious.