Jamie Osborne on Nostr: It’s a bitter irony that we have to rely on Trump’s US to rein in the UK’s ...

It’s a bitter irony that we have to rely on Trump’s US to rein in the UK’s technically illiterate and/or dangerous demands to break user encryption.

(not really sure what Vance was on about when he says “now using”)

— ‘Trump had weighed in to accuse Britain of behaving like China, telling the prime minister, Keir Starmer: “You can’t do this”.
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Vance … said it was “crazy” that “we’re creating a backdoor in our own technology networks that our enemies are now using”.’

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/19/uk-has-backed-down-on-demand-to-access-us-apple-user-data-spy-chief-says