• Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 hours ago

    Isn’t this part of the same amendment that will make government spyware mandatory on all devices? So does that mean that part passed as well? VPNs are not the most concerning part here yet that’s the only bit that seems to be getting reported

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    The “CSAM requirement” is that any relevant device supplied for use in the UK must have installed tamper-proof system software which is highly effective at preventing the recording, transmitting (by any means, including livestreaming) and viewing of CSAM using that device

    So that means mandatory spyware and effectively makes alternative OS’s/unlocked bootloaders illegal

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      7 hours ago

      tamper proof system software

      Lol, tell me you’re an ancient idiot with zero understanding of computers without telling me that you are an ancient idiot with zero understanding of computers

      So that doesn’t exist and is basically pretty much impossible

      Then, how about Linux? That goes exactly against the point of why Linux exists in the first place.

      So no more Linux computers then? No more Linux servers, then? No more IoT devices?

      That rule is bizarrely dumb. Not just bad, just dumb dumb dumb.

      So in other words, a perfect law to come from the UK government!

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        They’ll get a surprise when they realize they just made every server in the UK illegal and stopped the economy. But perhaps “relevant devices” are only those owned by the plebs.