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UK passes "online safety" bill making end-to-end encryption impossible (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 year ago by El_Dorado@beehaw.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] slurp@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is openly misleading. This sucks, sure, but it doesn't ban e2ee as the title suggests.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

and as a last resort develop technology to scan encrypted messages, it has said

Right there in the article, my guy.

If you can scan encrypted messages then you've no longer got e2ee

[–] mrmojo@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

1 line below, you can read

Tech companies have said scanning messages and end-to-end encryption are fundamentally incompatible. Earlier this month, junior minister Stephen Parkinson appeared to concede ground, saying in parliament's upper chamber that Ofcom would only require them to scan content where "technically feasible". Donelan said in response to questions about Parkinson's statement that further work to develop the technology was needed but government-funded research had shown it was possible.

In practice, I doubt this will have any consequence on encryption, as the title of this post suggests.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Backdoors make it "technically feasible" to scan "e2ee". See, it's all a matter of perspective.

[–] Zelet@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Fucking doublespeak (not you). If you can scan it then it isn’t e2ee. Words mean things. E2ee means that the two parties are the only two who can read the message. If there is a way to do any analysis on the message at all then it isn’t e2ee.