neuromancerJul 27, 2023

The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide

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The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide - Lemmy.world

Show threadAstroKevin

Basic summary because it’s a long-ish read:

_The U.K. Parliament is advancing the Online Safety Bill, which could potentially compromise the privacy of individuals worldwide by forcing messaging services to integrate backdoors, thereby undermining end-to-end encryption. _

Jul 27, 2023 at 4:28pmWeb
Show threadTooLameForLemmyJul 27, 2023

forcing messaging services to integrate backdoors, thereby undermining end-to-end encryption._

Wouldn’t the only apply to messaging apps that do the encryption for you? I’m curious how this could be applied to something like PGP/GPG or SHA256.