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End-to-end encryption; the will of the British people

https://element.io/blog/end-to-end-encryption-the-will-of-the-british-people/

83% of UK citizens believe personal conversations on messaging apps such as Element, WhatsApp or Signal should have the highest level of security and privacy possible.

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.

6 comments

ablackcatstail

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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.

silverbax

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Agreed, and I'm also annoyed at so many people who do understand end-to-end encryption immediately accept that if an app uses it, it's automatically secure and safe. The entity implementing it, and how they do it, also matters.

BeardyGrumps

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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.

tad_lispy

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But the polling cited in the post shows that the vast majority of people in UK support secure communication!

JehovasThickness

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I don't know why, but I read. "will be the end of British people"

lemmy

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To recap, a major legislative change involving a wonderful but unspecified solution. You could be forgiven for being a little sceptical about these Sunlit Uplands.

This part of the article is striking to me. A wonderful but unspecified solution surely will mean something half baked and under supported.