[Eclipse]

Anyone have an idea of which country I should move to?

Yeah, get out of your free 'Murica. *spits*

[Xeru]

Okay...first of all, it has nothing to do with banning encryption. Secondly, do you guys really think this will pass? Remember SOPA and PIPA.. The government has proven that they are dumber than [REDACTED] (sorry, had to do that). Also, the bill was at 20 years, not 10.

Now, everybody just calm your tits.

If you read carefully... it says Cameron banned encryption and Obama sided with Cameron. This means the decision is getting criticism from citizens of the UK and Obama is publicly stating that Cameron did the right thing. Right now, it has nothing at all to do with banning encryption. Though you must think that, if a president is agreeing with the heads of other governments about their own decisions to ban encryption in the way they did, the decision to adopt the policy is surely coming, it's just a matter of time until we're even more at the hands of corporations with government authorization to encrypt customers' connections to them. That is, for people who stay in the US if this happens.

Nobody's saying it'll pass, we don't know. Every bill they put forward is a huge risk to online freedom, and by extension freedom of information internationally. We've pretty much just been lucky so far, since in most cases congress doesn't give a fuck about freedom on the Internet (please don't quote me on that, that's from limited knowledge of previous controversial cyber bills). The government has known what kind of hell would rain down on them if the past bills were passed. Now that this Sony and White House hacked, the government has an excuse to fuck everything up without the public throwing a huge fit. They've scared the public into thinking "OMG HACKERS MUH CREDIT CURDZZZ ARE NOT SAFE". I've seen it everywhere, even within my own extended family, at gatherings they're always discussing the latest credit card breach. For our New Years party they were talking about the Lizard Squad attacks on Christmas. This being said, a lot of people are WANTING this government "intervention" to stop all of the chaos from these "rampant hackers" and "credit card thieves".

All I know is it's ridiculous that this bill was even proposed, and it shows who the real enemy is to everyone in cybersecurity, pentesting, and other great causes and communities.