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For the record Cameron was not suggesting on banning everything that uses encryption. Primary seeking a ban on end-to-end encryption messaging applications (ie, textsecure/signal, whatsapp, snapchat) that does no provide the UK government with a backdoor.

Its still a terrifying idea, and shouldn't be allowed to happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encryption_ban_proposal_in_the...

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Seeking a mandatory backdoor is equivalent to banning encryption.

This isn't just metaphorical - it is a practical, provable result of it. The various attempts throughout history have been abysmal failures of security.

The other practical result is that the current UK government appears to believe that citizens are their subjects, whose freedom is a privilege and not a right.

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