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Are we heading for a new encryption war?

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More details of how the UK's new surveillance law will operate have been revealed, in details about the use of encryption. Under draft regulations to support the new Investigatory Powers Act, the government will be able to issue 'technical capability notices' to companies with more than 10,000 UK users to make it easier for police, spy agencies and other government bodies to access their customers' communications.

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dotmatrix ·
ZDNet wrote:In particular, the regulations require companies to provide and maintain "the capability to disclose, where practicable, the content of communications or secondary data in an intelligible form and to remove electronic protection applied by or on behalf of the telecommunications operator to the communications or data, or to permit the person to whom the warrant is addressed to remove such electronic protection."


Operational Security Commandment:

1. Thou shall not trust corporate and/or transparent encryption.

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Encrypt before you upload. And, when possible, encrypt real-time communications with your own keys.

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