What will Sup Forumsbrit do after this election?

What will Sup Forumsbrit do after this election?
Aren't you folks pretty much screwed beyond belief with this?
If the conservatives come into power then you're gonna move towards a less socialist China, but if Labour wins then you're going to be moving towards normal China, and we all know that it's going to be one or the other at this rate.

To make it slightly more Sup Forums and less Sup Forums.
What do you folks plan on doing to protect your privacy and freedoms when the govt go for their anti freedom policies?

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Install Gentoo.

That's the major problem though innit?

If either of the two major parties have their way then there's genuinely a chance that Gentoo would be "problematic".

Dang, I thought us burgers had it bad with net neutrality.

It seems that they're planning to go all out in order to "prevent" terrorism.
We all know that this isn't going to do shit in that regard though which is why I'm frankly baffled that they're even in that situation.

> What do you folks plan on doing to protect your privacy and freedoms when the govt go for their anti freedom policies?

Nice try, GCHQ.

Can we just sever all the internet cables that lead to the UK?

As soon as all those anti-encryption laws kick in, they're going to become an insane security liability.
I don't want my packets passing through the UK in any way.

Britbongistan is literally 1984

To be entirely fair though, if your plans are ruined by you proclaiming them then they're not secure enough in the first place.

To be fair, it was the US who *first* banned encryption - in the 90s, which resulted geeks to chimp out and challenge it [1]. Britbongs just monkey it because they always monkey the US, only 20 yers later.

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How can a country with so many Indians be so bad at technology? It's like if Israel had a trade deficit.

Wow this is embarrassing. The UK should be ashamed of themselves.

I predict another spike in the sale of VPN subscriptions, like the one that happened after Trump's election.

So, no remote server administration?

VPN's are technical band-aids to social and political problems.

Bear in mind that with Theresa May's budget cuts, the police literally can't afford to stop known terrorists, so there's no chance at all that they will waste their time coming after you for the newly-illegal sin of working from home.

on this, when I was in China, I was able to use a VPN (Hide my ass) to access all western content, a lot of which was otherwise blocked (news sites, search engines, etc.)

You aren't going to be able to solve those social and political problems any other way though. Who becomes a politician? People who want control, and power over others. This Orwellian shit is not going to stop because it's something that all politicians, deep down, really want to do, because of who they are. If they didn't want power over you, they wouldn't be politicians. They aren't going to stop with this. There's nothing to be done but use technical measures to make them impotent.

Saying that we shouldn't use technical means to force this issue because its really a social and political problem is like saying we should try to achieve nuclear disarmament without inspections and sanctions, and that everyone should just agree that its the right thing to do and do it without being forced. It doesn't matter if it's right, there's a lot of people who will not go along with what's right unless they're prevented from doing wrong.

Encryption was never banned you twit. It's exportation was blocked under ITAR. US citizens could still encrypt their shit stateside.

Yes but they work. When you face adversity, you don't change the world to make it go away. You change yourself so you can deal with it.

I live in a country that's made a habit of blocking WhatsApp sometimes every year, all because some judges feel indignated when Facebook refuses to comply with their decryption orders. You can literally taste their fury when they speak about the subject. "All we wanted to do was investigate some CP case, but this fucking company won't do what we want! Why won't it give us the messages???" They're like little children who didn't get their way and started smashing shit to show everyone how angry they were. They got mad and ordered ISPs to filter WhatsApp packets, disrupting the entire country's communications just to "make the company feel the pressure". Higher authorities then order it unblocked because the whole thing was unconstitutional. After a few years of this it seems WhatsApp got through to them, and now they're talking about measures like the OP's.

These governments are like children.

What stops people from end-to-end encrypting messages and sending them via SMS or whatever? Are they going to ban all communications?

We really need to be going one step further and having services that are specifically designed so that the service provider doesn't and can't know what content users are transmitting, or, as much as possible, any metadata regarding their users. We need more cases like that NSL that got sent to Open Whisper where the government produces a warrant, court order, etc, and the website/service/etc says "I don't know any of the information you want, get fucked"

As if that's not just as bad.

>What stops people from end-to-end encrypting messages and sending them via SMS or whatever?
Technically nothing. Practically, key exchange and management needs to be handled by the application so people don't have to do it manually.

But we do need as many people as possible using strongly-encrypted communication so that doing so is so common that the government can't possibly hope to come after everyone who sends a message they can't read. If one in a thousand people do that and everyone else communicates in plaintext, you can send thugs after them. If half the population's messages are completely opaque to interception, you just have to live with the fact that "going dark" has happened.

With the current system it's impossible user. What you want is to have a decentralized network. The current internet is more centralized than it looks. ISPs have huge legal profile and can be easily coerced by the government. They're effectively a huge man-in-the-middle and can attack users at will.

What you said is what's already happening. Problem is the governments of the world aren't taking the "get fucked" part very well. They want to extend their own powers so that they can force the companies to have what they want when they order them to give what they want.

>my face when Americans call snoopy looksies "wiretapping"

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>going all out to prevent terrorism
>not banning muslims
wew lad

>How can a country with so many Indians be so bad at technology?
>It's like if Israel had a trade deficit.

Time to start planting bombs boykies

I don't understand how British people allow so many essential rights to be stripped away from them without complaint or action. They are more docile than even Americans.

This is the only real answer gentoomen.

also
>inb4 Ibad boster xdd

>europe

Please note that the OP isn't what she has actually has said, it's just what would have to be done to actually ban encryption.

LOL

libfags larp on here all the time about net neutrality being the end of the world for Americans, but europoors continue to get cucked far worse than Americans will ever dream of.

God I love being an American.

The EU could've prevented this

britbong here. Anyone have a good alternative to ssh?