I wonder how far down this route they're going to go before realising that this is unimplementable. Even if they manage to get Google, Apple, WhatsApp, etc onboard the technology is out there and open source with things like Signal.
Illegal encryption. Reminds me of the early days in the 90s when PGP above a certain level was banned outside of the USA because they classified encryption as a munition.
Jokes. Guess I'll be breaking the law in the future.
So it looks like the plan is still to have encryption that can be broken http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/14/gov_says_new_home_sec_iwilli_have_powers_to_ban_endtoend_encryption/
I wonder how far down this route they're going to go before realising that this is unimplementable. Even if they manage to get Google, Apple, WhatsApp, etc onboard the technology is out there and open source with things like Signal.