The security authorities always use terrorist attacks as an excuse to get more powers. It is a golden opportunity to get powers that they would never otherwise get. Rod On 25 May 2017 at 18:46, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo(a)geek-central.gen.nz> wrote:
Not too surprising to discover that some parties in the UK might be using the Manchester attack as a pretext to push through laws to ban secure encryption <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/25/uk_to_push_ antiencryption_laws_after_election/>.
As if such a ban would have helped uncover a perpetrator who, by all accounts, had already been reported to the authorities multiple times... _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: https://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug