The law sucks, but thankfully the government made a (kind of) u-turn. Still, fuck the home office.
Indeed, the Bill already stated that the regulator Ofcom would only ask tech firms to access messages once “feasible technology” had been developed which would specifically only target child abuse content and not break encryption.
source: the BBC
Apparently companies can be tasked with developing the technology, but I really don’t know what that means because you can’t invent laws based on tech that simply doesn’t exist. It’s like legally requiring Apple to build a teleportation machine.
At the end of the day encryption is maths, and as of my knowledge, maths does not have “good guys” and “bad guys”.
You can’t legislate math
- Mental Outlaw