- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
Perhaps, in actual fact, posturing on end-to-end encryption is the fig leaf for a lack of investment in education, policing and social care. After all, talk is cheap.
I find a lot of people really do not even understand end-to-end encryption. It’s okay not to understand it as a concept because infosec isn’t in everyone’s wheelhouse. I am most annoyed at the politicians that pretend to know. Information security is not easy. End-to-end security is all well and good, but what’s the use of encryption if the metadata can still be deciphered, doxxed, and used potentially against somebody.
It’s a sad fact but the vast majority of my fellow country people are bloody idiots and as long as there’s something good on the gogglebox or the local Wetherspoons is still open then there’s bugger all to complain about.l and they will tow the line.
Brexit / tories / civil liberties eroded such as the right to protest all went ahead without a hint of rebellion. Now it’s their privacy and more civil liberties that are being taken and hardly anyone is taking any notice. It really is a sad state of affairs.
But the polling cited in the post shows that the vast majority of people in UK support secure communication!