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It’s insane how intense the UK is being about breaking encryption. I could understand the hysteria if they had just suffered a terror attack or something and were riding public outrage, but as far as I know this is just based on some nebulous national security/protect the kids justification.
It’s insane. The U.S. and E.U. are not doing any better. The west is becoming a surveillance state.
The real reason for this is because pedophiles have been getting away with sharing CP and there's literally nothing the authorities can do about it.
Don't get me wrong, governments always want more surveillance of their populations. It's just in this specific case, they are trying to force it as much as possible because they can't tolerate people sharing CP without repercussion.
If we want privacy, we have to accept that it will be abused by some people for nefarious purposes.
We can all condemn CP and rightfully so. But it's asinine to think you can break encryption and that only the good guys will be able to take advantage of that.