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19 Apr, 6 tweets, 2 min read
"Facebook encryption plans will hit fight against child abuse, warns Patel"

Politicians shamelessly exploit "think of the children", and a lack of tech savvy in the general public.

Start putting back doors into encrypted systems and ecommerce is at risk! theguardian.com/society/2021/a…
Why? Because no back door is 100% secure - especially one designed to potentially be used by tens of thousands of "authorised" people!

And if encrypted systems are forced to be much less secure by law, then banks, other payment systems and merchants won't dare shoulder the risk.
Imagine a bank vault which a very large number of people have been given a skeleton key to. (You have no idea *who* has been granted keys - and you'll never know - but you do know a *lot* of folk can get in.)

Would you dare leave anything of value in that vault?

No chance!
Mandating back doors into encrypted systems would set off a gold rush for hackers.

Imagine knowing that every shopping site, travel booking engine, hosting service, blogging platform, bank, social media network etc. has to leave a way in open BY LAW.

Cue total chaos, forever!
Real-world parallel would be saying that every house must have a door with a lock that law enforcement can open at any time (like TSA spec locks on luggage) so that they can check for domestic abuse.

Nobody would sleep a wink in future knowing that every burglar is after a key.
But of course those on the other side of the argument go for the most logically bankrupt false equivalency imaginable: "if you're against efforts to fatally weaken encryption, you must therefore be pro child abuse".

And those who don't understand the real nuances lap it up.

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Our police, viciously beating protesters. No sugar-coating possible. This is WRONG.

(The protest can also be wrong - it's not one or the other. But the hypothetical wrongness of the protest cannot possibly justify a wild beatdown with riot shields, and batons.)
And then there's this (warning: the video is hard to watch)...
And here's the police, quite literally attacking a journalist...
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24 Mar
UK
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Population density: 275 people/km2
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Deaths per million: 1,891
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22 Mar
Big news on the UK domain front. Nominet's years of commercial overreach have finally caught up with it. (It was at its best as a lean, mean organisation focused exclusively on running the UK namespace well.) Members had enough.

And there's that cursed 52:48 ratio again.
Five founding members of the original Nominet lend their weight to a letter calling for the appointment of specific interim directors (who were originally going to be the subject of a second EGM resolution, before Nominet refused.)
For the record, in my experience, Nominet have always provided exemplary support to their customers. Fast, helpful and accurate.

But they lost their way organisationally nearly a decade ago, around the time of the first consultation to introduce domain registrations under .uk.
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22 Mar
The pandemic is global. Brexit mainly affected our relationship with the EU (of course some third country trade deals were not rolled over, but most were).

Telling that food and drink trade with the EU fell 75.5% but with non-EU countries it only fell 11.1%.

Thanks, Brexit!
The net effect is that the % of trade the UK does with non-EU countries has gone up and the % of trade it does with the EU has gone down, because that's just a matter of ratios.

However, the VALUE of the trade has fallen very substantially in both cases.
To expand on this...

As you can see, our non-EU trade in food and drink went up from 39% to 69% of all our trade, when comparing January 2021 to January 2020.

Our EU trade fell from 61% to 31% of all our trade.

However, the VALUE of both plunged.
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Interesting to see the different Easter Egg prices at online supermarkets. (Not always the same winners!)

Example 1: Nestle Smarties Chocolate Egg 256G

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Dominic Raab, on increasing the number of Trident nuclear warheads: "Because it is the ultimate guarantee, the ultimate insurance policy against the worst threat from hostile states."

Except it's not, because they will only be used in circumstances where we're already dead.
Remember, they're second strike weapons. They're not meant to be fired first.

But if we're retaliating against a massive nuclear attack, almost everyone not in a cosy government bunker will be a glowing pile of ash. So there is zero protective value to having dozens more.
Plus, when you think about it, any PM who ordered their use is the biggest idiot of all time.

If we're really talking about a situation where there was a mass nuclear exchange, we need as much of the world to survive as possible so there's an eventual chance of rebuilding.
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