The U.K. Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill (OSB), which says it will make the U.K. “the safest place” in the world to be online. In reality, the OSB will lead to a much more censored, locked-down internet for British users. The bill could empower the government to undermine not just the privacy and security of U.K. residents, but internet users worldwide.
  • pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz
    86·
    1 year ago

    We really need some kind of FOSS encryption service that can’t just be compromised like that.

    🤔 Do you think they could force devs to fork over private keys to blockchains like Bitcoin?

      • pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz
        11·
        1 year ago

        I know. I am worried that the UK government could force devs to hand over the private keys to those end-to-end encryption apps under this new law.

        I would hope no corporation would actually obey something so insane.

        • Possibly linuxEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          A good messaging application won’t have keys they can hand over. It should be Foss and have the keys stored by the user