There is only a week to go before the government decides if it really needs the right to spy on commercial communications by controlling the use of encryption through key escrow. The industry, and indeed UK Plc, is at a crossroads.
There are two roads ahead of us, but only one leads forward. The path that we should - and presumably will - take is for users to be given the right to encrypt their communications as they see fit,...
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