UK Investigatory Powers bill threatens end-to-end encryption

[janitor]

@Blindsite2k

If Maidsafe Co dared comply with government surveylence I’d be very surprised if they weren’t treated like Microsoft or Google and since SAFE is open source it would be a simple matter to fork to code and simple take the project away from them

If a great majority of devs remained, it wouldn’t be that useful. An even worse scenario is where these fascist rules kick in after the SAFE networks goes live:

• Your (undeleatable) data remains on the original SAFE network
• SAFE (the coin) crashes (if the other network is any good)
• You have to repeat the whole investment (buy coins, gain farmer reputation, etc.)

I present the following without a comment.

HB before:

@happybeing

I really think @janitor needs to demonstrate how this decision somehow undermines all the provisions, especially when the basis for it would seem unlikely to apply to data protected by encryption, because this makes it inaccessible to indiscriminate surveillance.

I can see there being an impact, tighter rules, improvements in due process etc, but I really don’t see how this is going to prevent US companies from operating a service using SAFE Network. Whether they will choose to is a different question.

HB today:

@happybeing

I doubt being open source would protect MaidSafe Limited from being “required” to do something with software that they create and upload to the internet.

I recommend the first thread for better understanding of my (consistent) arguments then and now.