Government agencies have to fight for their budgets. The only way to survive, and expand is to lean on politicians.
The NSA and GCHQ are under threat, because of the ever increasing use of encryption, which reduces their roll, and thus budget.
This is about jobs, and expense accounts. What better way to keep the good times going, by scaring people. All part of the toolkit to manipulate politicians and popular opinion.
Indeed that is exactly what it is.
Wasn't there an issue with the FBI saying that Apple and Samsung are making their job difficult with the new phone encryption?
When will people get you can't stop Bitcoin and no government on this planet has the power to stop it....
People need to man up and say screw the authorities, if the people don't want something g then guess what you shouldn't have it, government is made for the people not the other way around...
I second this, but as from the articles, it seems they are just trying to censor its people.
They want to invade on their privacy hence the banning of things that involve encryption and privacy.Yeah, but the average Joe doesn't mind because they don't understand or know about these things.
The ones who know and respect their privacy will not stop using encryption, which means that the ban is an absolute fail before it's even imposed.