UK Parliament: Banning Tor Is Unacceptable and Technologically Impossible

An anonymous reader writes: Months after UK prime minister David Cameron sought to ban strong encryption, a new parliamentary briefing contradicts that, at least when it comes to Tor. The briefing says, "there is widespread agreement that banning online anonymity systems altogether is not seen as an acceptable policy option in the UK. Even if it were, there would be technical challenges." The briefing cites Tor's ability to circumvent such censorship in countries like China as well as looking at both legal and illegal uses of Tor.

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Re:Common sense to you and me, but...

[Dark$ide]

That's quite simply because the public school twat is 100% clueless when it comes to any new tech.

His cabinet friends are equally 100% clueless.

And his gov't advisers are too clueless to tell the clueles twats that they're clueless twats.

It would be nice if we get a Gov't on May 7th that isn't formed by a bunch of clueless twats but we won't. They teach them how to be clueless twats when they do their PPE degrees at Oxford and gain entry to the Establishment. It's the first rule of being a member of the UK Parliament and part of the UK Gov't.