Reply to post: Re: thoughts on future regulation of encryption

UK ministers to push anti-encryption laws after election

bobblestiltskin

Re: thoughts on future regulation of encryption

Even if they can't decode it, if they can just detect it in a world where unsanctioned encryption and/or steganography is outlawed

It would be possible to hide the data - all data is just a stream of ones and zeros. The interpretation of said data stream is done by the application.

Do you really think that we have the resources to scan all data streams in real time?

If steganography were outlawed, I do not imagine for a second that bad actors would actually obey this law.

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