On: NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to "use Apple encryption"

[mikestew]

then what's them from banning all new iPhones?

The torches and pitchforks that are soon to follow? You might get away with that in oppressive “some countries”, but I just can’t imagine it ending well in someplace like the UK.

[andrewflnr → mikestew]

I'd hope so, but you never know what you can get people to tolerate "for the children". This is, after all, the same UK population that voted these halfwits into power.

[nicoburns → andrewflnr]

The children themselves would be in the streets protesting if you banned iPhones in the UK.

[andrewflnr → nicoburns]

Naturally we have to protect them from themselves. /s

[giuseppe_petri → andrewflnr]

>these halfwits

You're doing them a favour calling them halfwits, if most of the current crop of British politicians were light bulbs they wouldn't be bright enough the light the cupboard under my stairs.

[yakshaving_jgt → andrewflnr]

We also voted Starmer into power, who is one of the few leaders of the free world with a spine.

It's not that black and white.

[PrivacyDingus → yakshaving_jgt]

Can I ask what it is that makes you believe he has a spine? His fawning over Trump didn't dispell this? Or his constant changes in direction?

[dambi0 → PrivacyDingus]

You could just as well argue that changing direction or admitting you got things wrong requires more spine than blindly sticking to the same direction even in light of new information.

Whether that applies to Starmer is a matter of opinion I suppose

[yakshaving_jgt → PrivacyDingus]

Well he hasn’t taken Trump’s direction on the war, has he?