{"id":128742,"date":"2015-11-11T15:13:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T22:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/11\/reveal-a-back-door-go-to-prison.html"},"modified":"2015-11-11T09:24:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T16:24:38","slug":"reveal-a-back-door-go-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/11\/reveal-a-back-door-go-to-prison.html","title":{"rendered":"Reveal a back door, go to prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK's proposed new "security" bill not only allows secret demands for back doors to be built into any software system (back doors that the government assures everyone will only ever be used for the best and most benign purposes, and will never, ever, ever be found or exploited by the Bad Guys), but makes any mention of such back doors, or back door orders, by anyone, to anyone, for any reason — in court, before Parliamentary panels, let alone to the media — punishable by imprisonment.<\/p>\n

'It seems that the central purpose of the revamped Snooper's Charter is not so much the claimed tidying-up of existing surveillance powers, nor even the extension of those powers, although it certainly does that too. At the heart of proposed Investigatory Powers Bill is something much more insidious: an attempt to make it impossible for anyone in the know to discuss any details of the government's surveillance activities, ever. As Danezis puts it: "The gagging provisions are a clear example that calls for a mature debate around surveillance are mere rhetoric, the securocrats want one last discussion before making any discussion about surveillance simply impossible.'<\/i><\/p>\n

This is not, of course, strictly a British thing. The "securocrats" in the US would dearly love to do do much the same. For your safety and mine, of course.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nSnooper’s Charter: UK gov’t can demand backdoors, give prison sentences for disclosing them<\/a><\/span>
\nThe new law would prevent any discussion of government surveillance, even in court.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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UK's proposed new "security" bill not only allows secret demands for back doors to be built into any software system (back doors that the government assures everyone will only ever be used for the best and most benign purposes, and will never, ever, ever be found or exploited by the Bad Guys), but makes any … Continue reading “Reveal a back door, go to prison”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,350,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-civil-liberties","category-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38224,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/09\/transparency-democracy-and-security.html","url_meta":{"origin":128742,"position":0},"title":"Transparency, Democracy, and Security","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 9-Jul-13 11:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If you don't know the laws and judicial decisions being made, you can't be an informed participant in the civic life of the nation. \u00a0Secret FISA courts whose decisions and interpretations are not for our tender ears, rubber-stamping executive branch requests that are offered through assertion, not adversarial advocacy ...\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":33385,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/29\/wiretap-for-us-or-else.html","url_meta":{"origin":128742,"position":1},"title":"Wiretap for us … or else!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 29-Apr-13 2:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'd always kind of assumed that companies that didn't cooperate with law enforcement on wiretapping \/ online monitoring were fined. \u00a0But now it seems the Feds plan to crack down on companies that don't fully cooperate with these kind of orders ... even if the excuse is that they don't\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9094,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/20\/the_more_things.html","url_meta":{"origin":128742,"position":2},"title":"The more things change …","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 20-Feb-06 12:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The FreeRepublic website is known as being, um, rabidly \"conservative,\" i.e., radibly supportive of the Bush Administration (which is the new definition of conservatism, it seems). 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