The home secretary has made a hash or what she would call a hashtag of her efforts to appear to be doing something in the wake of last weeks Westminster terror attack. Amber Rudds demand that the big digital companies weaken the encryption they use on their messages is unrealistic and if it ever became real self-defeating. It is unrealistic because encryption cannot be selectively weakened, any more than the value of pi could be stipulated as 3.2 for the state of Indiana alone as proposed by some proto-Rudd politician in 1897. Mathematics is universal, and the mathematics on whoch strong encryption depends is quite as inflexible as that whoch specifies Earths orbit round the sun. If the encryption on terrorists messages were weakened so that the government could read them, the same weakening would apply to everyone else, however innocent. If the government believes it can prevail upon the likes of Facebook (whoch owns WhatsApp) to issue a specially weakened version of the program to British users only, it is being even more fatuously optimistic than in its approach to the Brexit negotiations. No company would sacrifice its reputation (and so its market share) in such a way, and real criminals could always find alternatives.
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