Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users::The U.K. Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill (OSB), which says it will make the U.K. “the safest place” in the world to be online. In reality, the OSB will lead to a much more censored, locked-down internet for British users. The bill could empower the government to undermine not just the…
Why all internet users and not “just” those in the UK?
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The reaction is more likely ‘It’s still impossible. Just like we told you all the other times. Idiots.’
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…this would make E2EE effectively meaningless, because no amount of encryption will protect against getting scanned at the entrance and exit.
And then some incompetent contractor will put the backdoor key onto their GitHub and completely destroy everyone’s privacy
AND it would probably break laws in other countries that actually value privacy or security. It’s not like they’d be making a UK-only client for every fucking app or device that uses encrypted communications
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VPNs: exist
At more length: the internet is incredibly complicated and interrelated. It’s actually extremely difficult to draw clear national boundaries in terms of one web service or another, and the result is honestly never going to be 100% accurate.