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UK to Criminalize Possession of “sophisticated encrypted communication devices” (assets.publishing.service.gov.uk)

submitted 2 years ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] SteleTrovilo@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

As worded, this would apply to every Turing-complete system that exists, right? Or is it meant to target specific pieces of software - like GPG and Signal and Protonmail and TOR - where the governments don't have a backdoor?