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UK ministers to push anti-encryption laws after election

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King Canute can legislate for the tide to stay out, but his feet will still get wet...

What these idiots are asking for is technologically impossible without breaking the way the internet works for anything practical (i.e. SSL). Trying to unilaterally impose your own ideas on a global structure like the internet, by the means for nationally-scoped legislation is also doomed to failure, for pretty obvious reasons.

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