Pretty ominous considering the UK government:
1. has recently funded a propaganda campaign against end-to-end encryption
2. is pushing through laws which target the awful, and deliberately vague notion of "conduct that is not illegal but has the potential to cause harm".
1. has recently funded a propaganda campaign against end-to-end encryption
2. is pushing through laws which target the awful, and deliberately vague notion of "conduct that is not illegal but has the potential to cause harm".
https://twitter.com/hackerfantastic/status/1485946271877804033
It's no secret that I have a hold "professional organizations" and "registries" as a whole in pretty low regard. One of the reasons I got into hacking in the first place was because it was one of the few paths where progress was not gate-kept by useless bureaucratic bullshit.
I'd be inclined to just argue along those lines if it wasn't for the fact that I am genuinely fearful of the authoritarian direction the UK has been heading down for the last 15 years or so - and what governments will do with the ridiculous amount of power they are accumulating.
At face value all of these proposals are hilariously self defeating, and many are plainly unworkable given the state of the internet and the industry. But they hide a dark undertone which seeks to abolish any kind of public legitimacy for those deemed doing "unethical" work.
To drive this home: It's not hard to image a future in the UK where "revealing security flaws in public infrastructure" or 'building end-to-end encrypted systems" is conduct classified as "not-illegal but has the potential to cause harm" and thus censored by all "legitimate" orgs
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