{"id":28618,"date":"2015-01-17T14:40:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T19:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/david-cameron-is-technologically-illiterate-on-encryption-ban.php"},"modified":"2015-01-17T14:40:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T19:40:50","slug":"david-cameron-is-technologically-illiterate-on-encryption-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/encryption\/david-cameron-is-technologically-illiterate-on-encryption-ban.php","title":{"rendered":"David Cameron is &quot;technologically illiterate&quot; on encryption ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    The Prime Minister's plans to ban encryption technology are    \"technologically illiterate\", Liberal Democrat MP    Julian Huppert has said today (Friday 16 January).  <\/p>\n<p>    Strong encryption technology is used by a number of major    websites but under Cameron's plans websites would be required    to store data and hand that over to the intelligence    agencies.  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>    Responding to David Cameron's proposals to allowBritish    intelligence agencies to have the power to break the encryption    technology Julian said:  <\/p>\n<p>    Camerons plan to ban encryption technology means he is either    cynically trying to sound tough on terror, or he simply doesnt    have a clue what hes talking about. I wonder if the Prime    Minister realises his ludicrous proposal is technologically    illiterate?  <\/p>\n<p>    We all know online shopping, online banking and private    messaging all use encryption, so it is crazy to suggest we    should ditch it. It would open ourselves to attack from anyone    with 10 minutes hacking experience.  <\/p>\n<p>    What is even more bizarre is Cameron has chosen to make this    big announcement in the same week he has hotfooted it to    Washington to call for greater cyber security. He is completely    contradicting himself.  <\/p>\n<p>    By trying to ban encryption the Tories risk serious damage to    our economy, freedom, and security. It is vitally important    that we tackle terrorism effectively - but robbing us all of    our online security is no way to do it.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read more from the original source:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.libdems.org.uk\/cameron-technologically-illiterate-encryption-ban\/RK=0\/RS=j745c5F1u5nUON2Msqjbtb.SvG4-\" title=\"David Cameron is &quot;technologically illiterate&quot; on encryption ban\">David Cameron is &quot;technologically illiterate&quot; on encryption ban<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Prime Minister's plans to ban encryption technology are \"technologically illiterate\", Liberal Democrat MP Julian Huppert has said today (Friday 16 January). Strong encryption technology is used by a number of major websites but under Cameron's plans websites would be required to store data and hand that over to the intelligence agencies. Responding to David Cameron's proposals to allowBritish intelligence agencies to have the power to break the encryption technology Julian said: Camerons plan to ban encryption technology means he is either cynically trying to sound tough on terror, or he simply doesnt have a clue what hes talking about. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}