This sounds like a clandestine way to force cooperation of backdoors, otherwise asking for permission to patch your own software is bonkers ...
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As opposed to the EU legislating tech companies, the UK is so. much. worse.
This is probably one of the reasons Tories pushed for Brexit
To be fair I think they were quite split on the issue, I think the back benchers were more pro Brexit but the more prominent Tories were remainers.
What does the british think of this?
Why are they(thr elected politicians) ruining their country?
Most of my fellow countrymen are too thick to understand anything about this and couldn't care less.
It's an island of neanderthals and I hope I can get highly skilled enough to leave it.
same. where you thinking to bail out to? my top 2 picks are netherlands and norway atm. got any ideas?
As with everything else done by our current incumbents, it's fucking moronic.
Most people here probably don't care, or take the stance of "I've got nothing to hide".
Because they're rich and want to get richer
There's no way most people are rich, and if they are, then something's going right at least.
We are used to everything just getting worse.
It's fucking dumb. They've been making similar noises about having back doors in the encryption in WhatsApp too.
The politicians probably genuinely do think that is good for the population as they'll think it's for our safety or some bullshit, but know fuck all about technology or civil liberties to understand the consequences.
As for the population, I doubt most would even be aware of this or even care if they do.
Wonder if Apple are running the numbers and seeing whether pulling out the UK altogether wouldn’t lose them much money.
Well, China and Russia do the same.
China (and the US for that matter) don't need to stop security updates because they can just directly "ask" companies to put in backdoors.
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