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Surveillance strategies in the UK and Israel often go global

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[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 131 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They don't care how it affects normal people's lives or what we sacrifice to pay for their incompetent leadership.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't affect just normal people, but when you make encryption weaker, the foreign state surveillance also benefits.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It denies normal people the ability to retain their privacy from corporate and government surveillance.

[–] iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Which is exactly what any government these days wants.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

"Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice."

or something like that...

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Its quite explicitly malicious. If you do anything they think is not in national security interests: treason.