{"id":50981,"date":"2023-03-13T10:32:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T10:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/the-uks-bad-encryption-law-cant-withstand-global-contempt\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T10:32:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T10:32:14","slug":"the-uks-bad-encryption-law-cant-withstand-global-contempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/the-uks-bad-encryption-law-cant-withstand-global-contempt\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK’s bad encryption law can’t withstand global contempt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opinion<\/span> Around the world, a vital technology is failing. Just as massive solar flares fry satellites and climate-change superstorms overwhelm flood defences, so a new surge of ridiculous IT-related events is burning out irony meters across the globe.<\/p>\n

Let’s start with a couple of plums from the US, where \u2013 hold onto your peaked caps \u2013 law enforcement officials have been breaking the law, wholesale. Secret Service and immigration officers<\/a> have been caught using fake cell phone towers to intercept and monitor communications, without bothering to get permission or follow the rules. Then it was the turn of the FBI, the body charged with things like cybersecurity and detecting online pedophile activity, which saw \u2013 ah, you’re there already \u2013 its child abuse unit hacked<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both these events are of course intrinsically highly ironic, but nothing a modern irony meter can’t deal with. Heroic engineering efforts have produced hardened front-end sensors in response to years of Trump and Brexit that work well at ironic flux levels that smoke devices of just a decade old.<\/p>\n