Meredith WhittakerAug 21, 2023

In reply to a quick conversation with Lord Bethell of the UK Parliament on Twitter, I composed an open response.

You can find the original (ongoing) conversation here: https://twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1692547122850111667

The the open response here: https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/LBResponse.pdf

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Hi Lord Bethell, great to meet you. We're a nonprofit, not BigTech, and we've have never opposed whole Bill. We're alarmed by clause 111 giving Ofcom powers to mandate a backdoor in e2e encryption, undermining the safety & security of the UK's core infrastructure & basic rights.

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@Mer__edith The only solution to the whole 'backdoored encryption' debate is very simple.

"You do it first." Let them try to implement encryption with back doors in government and military systems. When they fail, the response is "I can't do it for all the reasons you can't do it."

Aug 22, 2023 at 12:32pmWeb