While the #CryptoWars continue, we would like to remind everyone of two very convincing facts for the pro #encryption side:
✅ 1. Encryption can't be outlawed
✅ 2. Backdoors for the good guys only are impossible
Read our position on the ongoing crypto wars: https://tutanota.com/crypto-wars/
Iran and the UK: Time to make it a club of one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtLoz0l-Vb0
UkPol, right to protest.
‘Hostile, authoritarian’ UK downgraded in civic freedoms index.
This is a stain on our country. Tories need to be ousted, and this needs to be fixed, asap.
#UkPol #UKNews
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/16/hostile-authoritarian-uk-downgraded-in-civic-freedoms-index
RT @BalancePowerUK: Green Party MP @CarolineLucas rips up a copy of the Illegal Migration bill during the second reading debate
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1635390669849239553
The BBC clearly think Match Of The Day viewers want to see another own goal.
GOOD GRIEF
"BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of rightwing backlash"
And they have the nerve to complain about tweet
Remember during the pandemic, there were certain people in UK “civic tech” spaces bemoaning the fact Apple and Google wouldn’t allow contact tracing apps that didn’t fall within their rules, saying “why should big tech be able to override sovereign states?”
Because said states do really silly things and tech companies telling them to piss off is about the only check on that.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/09/whatsapp-end-to-end-encryption-online-safety-bill
The government may change the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill to 'include allowing online marketeers greater use of so-called “legitimate interest” arguments for collecting people’s information and the ability for private companies to similarly obtain such personal information for scientific research.'
If this is true, the revised #DPDIBill is even more of a threat to our data protection rights. The Bill must be scrapped.
Physics geek, dev nerd, science fan. Esperantisto. Secularism, blasphemy & sarcasm. Evidence or STFU. Plant hater. Caveat lector. Enthusiastic cat and dog dad. RT≠︎👍 Slowly moving widdershins into #InfoSec