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UK passes "online safety" bill making end-to-end encryption impossible
(www.reuters.com)
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this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
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This is openly misleading. This sucks, sure, but it doesn't ban e2ee as the title suggests.
Right there in the article, my guy.
If you can scan encrypted messages then you've no longer got e2ee
The title here said E2EE is made impossible, I was simply saying that is untrue. Clarity matters. It says in the article they removed the bit about banning encryption or requiring back doors to it before it passed.
The rest sucks, as I acknowledged, and they want to make it easier to scan devices that would include messages that have been decrypted upon arrival. There's already spyware they does exactly that. However, that doesn't make it so that E2EE is impossible.