And up next on the news at 12, DC wants to ban iMessage and WhatsApp in the UK

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He said: “In our country, do we want to allow a means of communication between people which […] we cannot read?” He made the connection between encrypted communications tools and letters and phone conversations, both of which can be read by security services in extreme situations and with a warrant from the home secretary.
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I say:

"In our country, do we really want to be run by such idiots?"
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Yes the independant have taken a leap of faith that iMessage/WhatsApp would fall foul if DC wins the next GE and be banned, but if he is serious about it, could he actually enforce that on us?
 
ISIS would collapse over night if he did that, hurrah for Cameron, the inventor of the Internet.

It's only been a few months and already the Internet is free of porn, the guy is a genius :cool:
 
If they were to ban these forms of communications then potential extremists would just find other ways to communicate - I find it hard to believe that this would solve anything.
 
Even if they did have access to it, the intelligence services would probably; act too late, mark the wrong person catching the tube or reveal a secret operation on a photographed document when the holder leaves Downing Street :p;).
 
All an opposition party would have to do is say they wouldn't do the same thing, some instant votes right there.
 
A.K.A The government need better hackers.

They could spy on me if they wanted to, but it would be them getting locked away, not me. :D:D
 
I don't see the problem, any company that facilitates global communcation should co-operate with the UK security services to combat terrorism or face sanction. What's so unreasonable about that?
 
This is just daft, they open up one thing or ban it and it'll just force bad people on to other services.

There's a plethora of communication means both on and off the Internet. The fact that they'd target the mainstream channels says quite plainly that they're not after terrorists but after total surveillance.

Would any self respecting terrorist use tools made by the infidel anyway?

edit - Also, does anyone get the feeling that politicians want UKIP in power? Some of the decisions and events of late honestly make me think that someone is orchestrating this, seems it's a good time to be Farage (*shudder*).
 
scorza said:
I don't see the problem, any company that facilitates global communcation should co-operate with the UK security services to combat terrorism or face sanction. What's so unreasonable about that?
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When the scope creeps and it's not just used for terrorism cases?
 
terrorists can just use a single email account. Login from one location, write a draft in code and logout.

Terrorist from another location logs in, reads draft, figures out the code and acts on it. Nothing was really sent from one person to another.
 
AHarvey said:
terrorists can just use a single email account. Login from one location, write a draft in code and logout.

Terrorist from another location logs in, reads draft, figures out the code and acts on it. Nothing was really sent from one person to another.
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The point that it's more difficult to do that than it is if they can just send messages freely from their gmail accounts.
 
AHarvey said:
terrorists can just use a single email account. Login from one location, write a draft in code and logout.

Terrorist from another location logs in, reads draft, figures out the code and acts on it. Nothing was really sent from one person to another.
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MI5 sussed that one, they just pull the access logs and look at what IP's were connected.

A drive by wifi storage box though, that would be neat, you would have to triangulate each connection to see who was accessing it.
 
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