Security News > 2023 > March > The UK's bad encryption law can't withstand global contempt

Let's start with a couple of plums from the US, where - hold onto your peaked caps - law enforcement officials have been breaking the law, wholesale.

The government says, with a straight face, that to Protect the Children it must install back doors in end-to-end encryption.

The prospect of having to compromise user security or face massive fines has got Signal saying it'll leave the UK if this law goes through, with WhatsApp heading in the same direction.

What about VPNs? In-browser end-to-end encryption hosted outside the state? Open source that no organization controls?

In this case, this means using, encouraging the use of, and helping to develop and deploy, solid end-to-end encryption that outsmarts the law.

Any law whose spirit can be defeated while abiding by the letter is a bad law that is bound to fail if enough people saw away at its legs.

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