Paris, jihadis, tech giants ... What is David Cameron's speechwriter banging on about now?

Re: Trident can be hacked over the Internet (apparently)

You can see where this is leading to can't you ...

Is it leading to an obvious need for a securely enrypted C&C comms channel without a backdoor to increase the risk of a MITM takeover of Trident C&C?

Wait, wut?

Re: I will believe in that the day Google stops sabotaging OTR2

What is OTR2?

So she is talking about the same non-elected companies that are paying those democratiically elected governments' to legislate in their favour?

I have to wonder what democratically elected counts for, when as soon as they get in they 180 on the policies that got them elected.

""So only people with advanced tech knowledge are allowed to write about technology? Even though it's pretty important these days?"

Of course not, but in the absence of such knowledge they have to realise that what they write might be complete bollocks. Might be? Almost certainly will be!

And as for "adversarial", start looking closer to home.

Exactly

Have an upvote.

It is a sad day, when Frankie Boyle stops writing comedy and his political column reads like the only sane commentary on the subject:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/23/frankie-boyle-fallout-paris-psychopathic-autopilot

Wow...just...wow.

"So only people with advanced tech knowledge are allowed to write about technology? Even though it's pretty important these days?"

Considering her position of influence, I would have said a resounding "YES!!!" to that first question. My biggest gripe is the way she is ultimately equates the progression of encryption technologies with aiding terrorists. It's absurd. The things that spring to mind are:

a). By creating a backdoor to all encryption algorithms for government use only, you will also create the biggest threat humankind has ever seen. Keys will be available to the highest bidder, paranoia will dictate policy and national security services will become untenable.

b). Terrorists would communicate via carrier pigeon if it would help their cause. The focus needs to be at the social level and root out extremism while it is in its infancy, not by taking away the little security the Internet has natively.

c). At least try to make it a little less apparent what agenda you are actually pushing; it looks stupid and it makes the government appear completely incompetent.

Rant over.

Re: We need to have a mature debate

massivelySerial wrote: "We need to have a mature debate" ... NO! I literally don't want to hear what you have to say you totalitarian bastard. Nothing good comes after that political key-phrase.

Whilst I agree with the sentiment, you have to remember that some of these people actually do believe they're protecting the general public. So I invoke C. S. Lewis:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

Re: If this was politically inspired, then it's backfired spectacularly

Give credit to the Torygraph commentards: they had demolished Foges long before El Reg picked up the case.

And yes, Rik Myslevsky, they really are right wing, as opposed to Reg commentards who seem to be mainly left.

[My tech comments generally get upvoted, but my political ones go down.]

Re: So- and his voice is supplied by idiots

Macbeth, Act 5:

"That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

Who says predicting the future is difficult? Wm. S was channelling Cameron.

Re: So-

Cameron's speeches have traditionally been dreadful: one-sentence paragraphs full of assertions rather than rational argument. They look good on an autocue but not in print.

But recently they have improved, maybe because Clare Foges has departed from No 10.

Yes, something else is going on

Our "democratically elected" governments are using every excuse to take away our dearly-bought freedoms, and because we are more interested in what's on TV after the news, we aren't getting our fat(tening) asses of the couch and shouting a resounding "STOP!" in the streets.