BBC:
If he wins the election, Mr Cameron said he would increase the authorities’ power to access both the details of communications and their content. […]
There should be no “means of communication” which “we cannot read”, he said.
Cory Doctorow spiega in un articolo le conseguenze che l’approvazione di una simile legge avrebbe. Se costruisci una backdoor, questa sarà accessibile a tutti — buoni e cattivi. Scriveva Scheiner a Ottobre, quando Apple decise di criptare i dati degli iPhone, rendendoli inaccessibili a essa stessa:
Ah, but that’s the thing: You can’t build a backdoor that only the good guys can walk through. Encryption protects against cybercriminals, industrial competitors, the Chinese secret police and the FBI. You’re either vulnerable to eavesdropping by any of them, or you’re secure from eavesdropping from all of them.