[notinfuriated]

> The bill takes a wrecking ball to the very fabric of encryption, by requiring encrypted messaging apps to scan for abusive content within the app (or the app’s underlying operating system).

Perhaps I misunderstand the analogy, but this doesn't seem to do anything to the "very fabric of encryption."

It certainly would make me have zero trust in any encrypted messaging apps that continue to operate in the UK and follow this law. Otherwise, anyone who wants to have truly encrypted messaging can do this on their own. And if the barrier of entry for learning how to sign messages is too high, I don't doubt that open source encrypted messaging apps already exist or will quickly come into existence and will refuse to comply with laws like these.

What are they going to do, force math to comply with their laws?

[developer93]

I assume they would have something like a keylogger so that it was scanned before being encrypted/after being decrypted