Just think how much worse the crime levels would be if the UK did not have all of that. If people in the UK behaved the way they should do (schooling and parenting never taught children to behave the way they do now and when they become adults) then the government would not need all this oversight and surveillance. The UK used to have high standards in society, how you spoke to people, how you behaved towards others and that has slowly eroded away as the country has become more multicultural. Even just today I read an article about a football player and their behavior on the pitch and it was noted that in his home country such behavior is the norm and thus accepted but here in the UK it is not and thus it's a 'cultural' difference as the article reporter put it. But that is for a different debate at a different time.
You have failed in trusting your neighbors and your government. Why isn’t continental Europe the same ******** as Uk? Not even swedenstan is as bad as UK.
Becoming a surveillance state isn’t a solution as we can see on UK and USA, all the spying but no security at the cost of privacy.
You are advocating for micromanaging more and more, and just like in communist states, you can’t control everything. And even if government meddling is good and needed sometimes, at a certain point it just does more harm than good and needs to be scaled back.
It's very easy to complain and criticize about something isn't it, which is probably why many more people complain than provide solutions to things because finding solutions is hard and thus make excuses why they cannot do it.
Sometimes the solution is the statues quo. Because no solution is better than a bad one. Having a warrant, inventing ways to decrypt the hardware by exploits etc.
Still the bottom line is private messaging and encrypted communication is vital for a democracy and a free society.
End to end encryption is all very well and good, but when senders need to know each other's telephone numbers to communicate in the first place, security and privacy are already flying out the window. Ditto apps like Signal.
Patently false. You giving up your number doesn’t compromise your security or privacy.
Your communication is still protected from outside observers or man in the middle attacks.
You must always know a persons number to communicate with them
By text or phone, it being needed for a secure communication doesn’t remove the privacy and security given by signal.
Blackberry Messenger used to create a user code which is what you'd pass onto others to get in touch with you - your actual contact info remained private.
And you can still get access to prepaid SIM cards or virtual numbers disconnected from you. Otherwise people wouldn’t be able to communicate securely in China or Russia. And we shouldn’t make it even harder in the west for absence of security that doesn’t actually materialize.
We let so much of our private info and / or usage habits out into the greater ether these days - not sure an encrypted message is going to stop anything...
Encrypted communication stops a lot. Just take your bank, everything is public, the address you have and the recipient. But the encryption makes sure what’s communicated is only shared between the two of you.
Just because we are Sharing more private information publicly, doesn’t mean everything should be publicly available.
You don’t throw out the baby with the bath water.
