Backdoors

from the sounds-messed-up-but-hardly-changes-anything dept It’s no secret many in the UK government want backdoored encryption. The UK wing of the Five Eyes surveillance conglomerate says the only thing that should be “absolute” is the government’s access to communications. The long-gestating “Snooper’s Charter” frequently contained language mandating “lawful access,” the government’s preferred nomenclature for encryption backdoors. […]