Technology

https://www.justsecurity.org/87615/changes-to-uk-surveillance-regime-may-violate-international-law/

Linking to the original article and not an article summarizing the article.

The court issue is that the UK government wants service providers in the UK to request permission to apply updates including security updates. And they may deny that permission if whatever they're fixing is currently in use by their national security service.

Ie if the government wants it broken so they can keep exploiting it they will prevent anybody from getting patched.

Ok so Apple would have to disclose the vulnerability to follow proposed EU rules then can't implement the fix in UK? That seems like a disaster waiting to happen

Under the latest plans, tech companies would need to notify the British government before rolling out a security fix but might be refused permission if it blocks a vulnerability that’s being exploited by security services…

I suppose these days it's cheaper to find some half baked vulnerability and pray it lasts a while instead of just adding back doors in the devices

I was expecting this to be a half-baked plan to block something using a less-than-half-baked definition that would also cover security updates.

The fact that someone actually thinks explicitly blocking security updates is a good idea is just appalling.

Hospital emergency rooms across the UK are likely to be declaring a major incident to deal with the rash of injuries caused by the force of facepalming and banging heads against desks throughout the tech sector.

The NHS is struggling enough as it is.

Welcome to the world of British politics. When their advisor on drugs, the scientist prof David Nutt, pointed out that riding a horse is statistically known to be more dangerous than MDMA he was summarily dismissed from his post. These people don't want inconvenient facts to spoil their Victorian era conception of reality. So it will go with their absurd and pernicious spying charter.

Surveillance state.

Lol @ their intelligence agencies telling them that this is a bad idea & them going ahead anyway

They want to end the """British Empire""" once and for all. It's a long term plan that started with Brexit.

Add to the law that all politicians phone data must be shared with the tax payer.

nsa is happy