NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to “use Apple encryption”(alecmuffett.com)

340 points by jjgreen 1 year ago | 202 comments

Alec Muffett blog post reporting that NCSC, GCHQ and UK government removed advice recommending Apple encryption for legal professionals, coinciding with Apple's backdoor lawsuit.

House of Lords Votes to Ban UK Children from Using Internet VPNs(ispreview.co.uk)

56 points by donpott 9 months ago | 55 comments

Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance(alecmuffett.com)

506 points by wubin 9 months ago | 131 comments

Blog post on Alec Muffett's Dropsafe about spoofed ADS-B signals using an Air Force Two ICAO identity to draw a JD Vance meme over Mar-a-Lago on flight trackers.

4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence(alecmuffett.com)

439 points by alecmuffett 1 year ago | 629 comments

Alec Muffett blog post on 4chan's lawyer publishing Ofcom correspondence in which the UK regulator claims sovereign immunity while asserting powers over foreign companies.

The UK Is Poised to Ban VPNs(da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)

5 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 2 comments

Ross Anderson has died(alecmuffett.com)

267 points by mstef 2 years ago | 30 comments

UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users(eff.org)

592 points by judiisis 3 years ago | 346 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Joe Mullin criticizing the UK Parliament's passage of the Online Safety Bill as a threat to privacy, security, and encryption.

VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in(ft.com)

611 points by mmarian 1 year ago | 920 comments

Financial Times article reporting a surge in VPN use in the UK as new online safety rules take effect.

Lawmakers want to ban VPNs(eff.org)

561 points by gslin 11 months ago | 320 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Rindala Alajaji criticizing lawmakers' proposals to ban or restrict VPNs as technically uninformed.

UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging(ft.com)

692 points by alwillis 3 years ago | 256 comments

Report that the UK government will not use Online Safety Bill powers to scan encrypted messaging apps until it is "technically feasible," backing down from a clash with tech firms.

The UK's war on anonymity has come to America(effort.news)

592 points by slowin 2 months ago | 635 comments

An Effort investigation reporting that UK NGOs behind Britain's digital ID and anti-anonymity laws are lobbying US state legislatures to adopt similar rules.

UK Government Body Kept Files on People Criticizing Prevent Program(reclaimthenet.org)

43 points by latein 22 days ago | 10 comments

Reclaim The Net article reporting that a UK Home Office unit kept files on people who criticized the Prevent counter-extremism program, revealed after an appeal.