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Britain Admits Defeat in Controversial Fight to Break Encryption (www.wired.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by cjf@feddit.uk to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a temporary reprieve rather than a victory. The wording of the bill hasn't changed, they've simply added the statement that what they want to do isn't technically possible yet but when it is, this'll be revived.

[–] elouboub@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

That encryption can have a backdoor for "the good guys" to use but never the bad guys? I guess this is defeated then.