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UK gov says new Home Sec will have powers to ban end-to-end encryption

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Banning encryption

I hope common sense prevails as sloppy legislation in this area could lead to the exit of a lot of business from the UK or pointless, easily side stepped regulation. It strikes me that if they try to insist on encryption that is weak enough to be easily decrypted then criminals will benefit more than government.Alternately the cost of communications goes through the roof to pay for research and massive compute power for decryption. Either way not good nor the intended outcome.

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