UK proposal to criminalize “sophisticated encrypted communication devices”
HN is trying to derive axiomatically what this is about, but there's an empirical backstory you want to know about this. Start with this grugq conversation on Twitter from a few months ago:<p><a href="https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/1610169123388141568" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/1610169123388141568</a><p>What this appears to be about is not encrypted messengers but rather particular brands of modded Android phones that are used exclusively for organized crime.<p>That doesn't mean you should support the proposal, but if you're reading it as "the UK is trying to ban encryption outright", that's not the whole story.