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

submitted 2 years ago by El_Dorado@beehaw.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] sarmale@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Cant you just make a keyboard app that encrypts it for the recipient while you type it? Will they even ban that?

[–] lckdscl@whiskers.bim.boats 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Like this one https://github.com/amnesica/KryptEY?

[–] sarmale@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, like that, thanks for it. was thinking about something that captures the screen and uses OCR to take the encrypted text and then decrypts it. But that would be complicated and would need to be adapted for every app

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

No they won't. The bill is against social media companies, not your own encryption measures. Where the line exactly falls between hand-coding your own cypher; using good old PGP; using an app to encrypt but sending via a separate service; using an e2ee messaging app+service; being on a community/group-focused e2ee service; normal unencrypted-on-server social media... Going by the Reuters article (I haven't read the actual bill) it seems mostly aimed at main social media platforms, with a to-be-explored relationship with private messages.

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[–] Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

After Brexit there's Digital Brexit

[–] slurp@programming.dev -3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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