If it’s not open source then forget about it, it won’t go anywhere. I’ve had that stance of all software for decades now, but in the last few years boat loads of others have caught on.
Its simple really. If the software is open source (ALL of it, servers, clients) we can all check it and all be sure it does what is advertised. If not, we have no way of knowing what you’re doing, especially on the server side of things, and if we’ve finally collectively learned on thing, it’s that we can’t trust companies on the server side of things. Data WILL be used in other ways than advertised.
Since this software is supposed to be a security product, trust is paramount, and it’s bot there at all. Unless this product would be open source I won’t even look at it.
They could observe a connection to the server, big difference. If the site is on a WordPress domain, that IP might lead to a load balancer that manages hundreds of sites.
Of course the reverse is also true, so for for example Facebook, of you hit one of their IPs, then its obvious what you’re accessing
Tech bros are only interested in getting the results from open source. They want the free software from their slaves, they aren’t interested in paying anything.
Tech companies, for a while, added a bit to open source as it was in their own self interest, but they still shut out everything that wasn’t them, they still make the internet in the horrible stonewalled garden that it is today. No account? Half the internet isn’t accessible to you anymore
Fuck all the big tech and social media companies
Every year we have summer
Every year we have a bunch of dip shits believing encryption isn’t necessary
Every year we have a bunch of dumb idiots proposing that it is very doable to build a secure backdoor into encryption
Every year…
We need to make encryption a constitutional human right in the entirety of Europe
Option one: just don’t go to the USA
Option two: if you really have to go, don’t take your phone.
Option three: if you really need a phone, take a burner
Be sure to not have any Google or Hotmail account, as in unsure about their “powers” to force you to login to your email accounts. Have a non US mail provider at the very least.
I’m a computer engineer with over 30 years of experience. If I’d want to be a terrorist, they can Monitor google, and they wouldn’t find me. They can decrypt WhatsApp and a few others and they’d still not find me. They wouldn’t be able to find anyone halfway capable.
What they WOULD find is a lot of people just going about their day.
Makes you wonder who they’re trying to target with all this shit.
Banning encryption won’t stop child porn, not even a little bit
Monitoring google won’t stop terrorism (or child porn) not even a little bit
Can we please Please PLEASE make a law that requires politicians to know what they’re taking about? If a politician votes about banning encryption, he either know what it does and why it works or if he doesn’t know, he.doesnt get to vote.
I’m a computer engineer with over 30 years of experience. If I’d want to be a terrorist, they can Monitor google, and they wouldn’t find me. They can decrypt WhatsApp and a few others and they’d still not find me. They wouldn’t be able to find anyone halfway capable.
What they WOULD find is a lot of people just going about their day.
Makes you wonder who they’re trying to target with all this shit.
Banning encryption won’t stop child porn, not even a little bit
Monitoring google won’t stop terrorism (or child porn) not even a little bit
Can we please Please PLEASE make a law that requires politicians to know what they’re taking about? If a politician votes about banning encryption, he either know what it does and why it works or if he doesn’t know, he.doesnt get to vote.
Hey, didn’t I have 50.000 ony bank account? It’s empty!
No, you logged in and transferred it all to some Russian account.
what do you mean I have child porn images in my files? I don’t have those
Now you do after your ex working at obs put them there for you
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So so so so so many ways that this WILL be abused to death. Meanwhile actual criminals will continue using secure encryption protocols, good luck with that.
Did they?
I feel like this is yet another don quixote versus the windmills thing.
SSL, TLS, SSH, just a few protocols that float the internet don’t support any of the crap that the UK government wants, nor can they.
So either the entire world spends 10 years building a completely new internet based on new protocols that will be abused within 2 weeks, just because UK politicians are retarded, or… well, I guess the UK will just have to cut their country off of the Internet, a brexit, if you will. I heard those work really well too.
It doesn’t work like they want.
“we want to break https, SSL, TLS, SSH…”
Man, operating servers in the UK is going to be FUN!
First of all, these protocols don’t allow for backdoors so good luck with that. Are they going to ditch all those and run their own private internet or something?
Seriously, what they want isn’t even possible, and even if it were, it won’t. fix. anything.
Real criminals will just continue using these real encryption protocols that you cannot break, so this just ends with the state being able to spy on the common people.
And nobody will abuse this, if 50.000 pounds disappears from yout bank about then fuck you, shut up, you never had that…
Politicians are stupid.
Don’t worry, allmof that will be back on the table again next year, and then the next and the next, untill it passes.
Remember kids, if you want to be a good evil politician, you just keep pushing and pushing and pushing your evil shit until people tire and it passes.
This shit has been on the table at just about all governments since at least 2 decades. It just returns each year with a new name, same shit.
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