On Thu, 2016-05-05 at 00:48 +0100, Steve Karmeinsky wrote: > On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 11:15:47PM +0100, MFPA wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA512 > > On Wednesday 4 May 2016 at 6:04:55 PM, in > > <mid:1462381495.2764.63.camel@keith>, keith wrote: > > > Personally I almost realise that > > > some of this may be > > > needed and/or indeed necessary > > By contrast, I am 100% certain that none of it is needed. If "the > > authorities" think they need access to some specific group or > > individual's communications, they can employ plain old-fashioned > > deception to have undercover agents worm their way in and get > > themselves trusted and included in the encryption list. > > Unfortunately it doesn't matter if it's needed, it's becoming law (well > it's already law under RIP, but DRIP 'expires' this year, so now > enshrined under IP Act). > > It's a blanked law to ensure what's being done already is now legalised. > > Steve >
Ah well... As you suggest they are looking to legalise past actions and extend their capabilities in the future. http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/investigatorypowers/stages.html Resistance as they say is futile. The Public Bill Committee was 'loaded' in favour of the Government with any and all Opposition amendments being voted down. Basically it has gone through this stage without anything being changed. I do not see much hope for anything happening in The House of Lords or any time later so we are left with the ECtHR, Davis and Williams. I guess I look forward to receiving a 'Technical Capability Notice' in respect of my Raspberry PI e-mail server. Otherwise welcome to Full On Hard Core DPI across the whole of the UK that is going to affect all internal traffic and anything transiting the borders.... Not that you could trust them, or others, anyway but it might be time to set up BGP to steer all traffic away from DataStrip One. :-( Keith _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
