If so we should all start sending cryptic sounding gibberish around the world. Like from random lists send emails to foreigners with some random gibberish like product codes written in that look like encrypted messages, xg0-fs39450, or whatever, just as a form of protest.

It's in the Oligarchic Repression Chapter I think.

Our governments are hostile. Act accordingly.

Thank god I'm not British.

That is longstanding, the US and the UK both have been writing laws broadly enough for them to take down anyone for them, or at least charge, we all just trust it won't be abused, but as we've seen with the uk and their bad faith terror designations, that trust is misplaced, and the mask is coming off society. They aren't pretending anymore, and cynically think "democracy" such as it is, is already dead in all but name, it's only the citizenry that doesn't know it yet, and or is contesting it.

This is cypherpunk, not cyberpunk. Common roots, but important distinction.

"Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice."

or something like that...

Both parties were captured by the aristocracy/super rich, call them what you will, and they support a total surveillance of a population they obviously fear and want tools to persecute as they see fit. Starmer is a perfect example of this, he's done more damage arguably than the tories did in over a decade. Their betrayal of the country will throw the elections to the far right too, that is the only protest vote against the status quo, and they will affix themselves in power and implement even worse privacy.

A popular reform party would fix the problems but the aristocracy is too greedy and arrogant for that, thinking they can control a far right party or otherwise shut them out electorally indefinitely and continue to sell out the public to the rich, even as discontent is increasing and the plutocratic rot is visible on the surface and spread throughout the whole.

Not surprised with the mindset of current admin. Awful people.

Don't talk without electronic devices around because it might be hostile activity.

The United Kingdom didn't stop being an evil empire or it's own volition. The culture of oppression was never really challenged, the pool of potential victims just severely reduced.

According to this legislation, using https is against the law.

Can you provide a source for this document?

I understand that in a system with clients and servers having encrypted communications between the server and the clients is not enough to have end-to-end encryption.

Even then I find it strange to cobsider TLS not end-to-end, the whole gist of TLS is enabling confidential communications between 2 network nodes without any of the intermediate nodes participating in the communication being able to decrypt the data.

Yeah it's confusing. The implicit assumption in E2EE is that it is taking place on the application layer, while transport encryption happens on the, well, transport layer, or somewhere in between. I think the authors in the linked document mentioned chat communications between users which is definitely application layer.

E2E is about the sender encrypting, and only the intended receiver decrypting, with nothing in the middle able to read the data.

TLS is not designed for that, as the server you connect to is not necessarily the intended receiver, yet it can see everything.

With E2E, you can send data to a server, which is not the intended receiver, and it won't be able to read it.

Probably ai generated let's be honest here

This is great.
If you are (or know) a UK citizen, please let them send this with the above context to their representative.

No-one's invading Lincolnshire then.

Not as long as UK is the root CA, I suppose.

Fucking hell...

It's British, so no.

Make sure you only use transparent envelopes.

So they're happy for us to read all their messages, right?

So every financial institution and everyone using WhatsApp

thats what happens when we as society become ignorant and inept, and therefore we vote for inept and ignorant people to represent us.

When has the majority not been ignorant and inept?

Back when societies collective knowledge was like 4 things?

How dare you try to hide your communications from us!

All of them, AFAIK

The source can be found here: https://terrorismlegislationreviewer.independent.gov.uk/ (direct link)

It's an independent report by Jonathan Hall KC presented to parliament. I think everyone is under the impression that those highlighted paragraphs are a statement of law, they're not. But they are the guy's (correct) interpretation of existing law - namely, Schedule 3 of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019.

The report itself is a good thing, coz now we know how far the UK government will try to stretch their powers and what we need to repeal when Labour (and the Tories) fucks right off.

As part of his summary:

Some of the powers and offences extend well into the zone of political activity,
journalism, protest and day-to-day human activity. However useful, they must
be tested against misuse and overreach.

Yup, it's surveillance police state shit.

If i remember correctly, a few weeks ago a government party had their signal chat leaked. Those people have since ceased using signal right?

HTTPS ❌🇬🇧

HTTP ✅🇬🇧

SSH ❌🇬🇧

rlogin ✅🇬🇧

There's no problem with Signal's encryption. It's the same issue with any and to end encryption scheme, at either end is a person who can very easily copy and paste everything that has been said in the conversation and send it off to anybody they wish.

They are not all inept.

They know exactly what they are doing.

It is a hostile act to create information the state isn't privy to. That is a very deliberate act.

No of course. I meant that if at least one party in the UK gov is using signal, with end to end encryption, they are no longer using it because they are now considered ‘hostile actors’

Gee why does the capitalist oligopoly fear communication they can't monitor it's not like they are doing anything wrong and have anything to fear from little old us

Fascista

I mean, they wouldn't be wrong, but they don't know why they aren't wrong.

Shit-flinging desperation at the realization that they have failed to contain dissent via internet-based coordination. Elbit and the UK's protection of property was defeated by persistent disruption thanks to the work by Palestine Action. Unlike previous forms of communication, the empire has had tremendous difficulty wrestling control away because the materiality of the internet is so dispersed, accessible, and impossible to restrict without dire economic and military consequences.

“You are a hostile actor if we say you are a hostile actor.”

Well, yes, generally the recipient of a message has to get access to its content.

Reminder, rules for thee, but not for me

I think this is more malice than it is ineptitude tbh.

if im alone in my car, i'll just start talking gibberish or about that time i kicked a cyber-dolphin through the moon. just in case the man is training some ai on what my phone's microphone picks up.

The British ought to actively strike against and shut this down ASAP or they will lose their country to complete fascism. Say goodbye to any aspect of democracy.

So google, amazon and Microsoft are hostile actors.every cloud provider is an enemy of uk government. They have gardeners (at best) or lawyers ( most probably), which did their own research.before writing these abominations.
At the same time, they want to give all medical datas in the NHS to palantir.
This is the apoteosis of incompetence.