Yep, Patel continues age-old tradition. Plus: Five Eyes word games
Newly assigned UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has declared war on encryption safeguards, demanding they be torn up for the convenience of police workers.
Patel, the social conservative appointed Home Secretary by Prime Minister Boris Johnson last week, used this morning's Daily Telegraph to call for end-to-end encryption to be broken with backdoors inserted for illicit law enforcement access.
In this morning's front-page newspaper story, a sentence attributed to the Five Eyes spying alliance which appeared to support Patel's personal views on breaking encryption was not, however, in the agreed version of the communique, as spotted by tech lawyer Graham Smith.
But curiously, the sentence quoted by the Telegraph about design of encrypted products and services does not actually appear in the final FiveEyes ..
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