UK's new surveillance law is freaking nuts

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this is what you get when you elect tories - although Labour should have opposed this much, much more vocally that they did since its a poisonous bit of legislation that goes well, well beyond anything that the government should be doing.

The worst part is the ban on encryption that doesn't have a back door in it so the government can get a warrant to have a look at whatever someone has been saying: but not only is the whole process on getting a warrant or the fact that a warrant has been issued secret; but if a company says publically that they've had to weaken their security protocols because of a government warrant then they'd be breaking the law.  That sort of stuff is totally unworkable since no sensible company is going to change anything to comply with this law since if they poke a hole in their security for one government then everyone will want their own backdoor and suddenly iOS will have more holes in it than a block of emmenthal.  Its a law that's obviously been written by people with absolutely no knowledge of the topic and assumptions that things that can't be done can be done (having a way to let the government in to a secure device without making it much easier for bad people to get in) and with no regard for transparency - although looking at the Brexit negotiations, that shouldn't be a shock.