Re: "ridiculous to try and enforce a ban"
Aren't we all tired of this shit yet?
Will peeps *please* stop believing that anyone's trying to "ban encryption". Whenever our political masters wish to pass some hideous Orwellian act to crush what little we have left in the way of rights, they shove it through as quickly and quietly as possible. Of course. This ludicrous spectacle is the opposite of that. As loud and static as possible. It's not going anywhere because nobody's really trying to "ban encryption." It is a targeted disinformation campaign to address a specific problem:
The "problem:"
Since the Snowden "revelations" the average mug has finally realised that the "tinfoil brigade" was right all along and governments really are spying en masse on practically everything they do. Really!!!! OMG!!! As a result there's been a significant upturn in awareness of and demand for cryptography apps - as can easily be seen on any technology related forum or software hub. This obviously poses a bit of a problem from a mass surveillance perspective.
The "solution:"
Operation Restore Confidence.
*Pretend* to want to ban the pathetic joke crapto incorporated in consumer electronics and government issued protocols "cos it's so hard we can't break it. Honest. And terrorists and paedos!" Thus restoring the average mug's confidence in the "security" of the pathetic joke crapto incorporated in consumer electronics and government issued protocols. That same broken-by-design "encryption" everyone was using before the "revelations."
No one is going to "ban encryption"
No one is even trying to "ban encryption"
REALLY!
It's just theatre.
It's just an exercise to restore confidence in the sham.
Has this really not sunk in yet?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
