Guess the UK better get used to seeing "We're sorry, [AppName] is no longer available on your country."
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
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I don't know if meta or telegram cares enough about encryption to lose UK market
Neither Telegram nor Facebook Messenger is E2E encrypted by default. Maybe they'd just disable the option for E2E encryption for both senders and recipients in the UK.
It's going to be terribly difficult to run two different apps on mobile app stores. If Telegram gives access to the UK government to backdoor eavesdrop then that essentially means its available in the entire app. Any app that does this means I'm not using it.
Bad actors are already commiting crimes, they will have no trouble "illegally" using encryption software to keep their message hidden. Encryption is just math, you cannot stop a computer from performing an encryption algorithm.
You can however "make it illegal" for software to do this, what just results in normal citizens having unencrypted communication, while people who are up to no good are still encrypting their stuff.
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Which is the point. They want to spy on everybody.
Or just stealing someone's phone, doing whatever they want to do, toss it in a river, and not have anything traced back to them
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The UK is close to separating itself from the internet.
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