I don't understand how this woman became police commissioner. She's only ever failed and somehow that only ever led to promotions or commendations (e.g. a CBE).

Her main achievement prior to becoming commissioner was heading up a botched anti-terrorism operation that ended up with an innocent Brazilian plumber being shot in the head.

Her main achievement since becoming commissioner was obstructing an investigation into police corruption: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/15/daniel-morga...

That explains the massive number of terror attacks we’ve seen in London then.

The most effective way we reduced terror attacks in the past was with negotiated peace in Northern Ireland. Effectiveness of attacks was also reduced with physical security like cast iron/concrete bollards making truck bombs (or more recent developments like driving a van into lots of people) harder. Terror attacks in the U.K. today tend to come from poorly organised Islamists and neo-nazis who don’t really do significant amounts of harm (but maybe you would disagree with me on that—the IRA were mostly interested in harming property rather than people unlike today’s attackers) and I’m not really suggesting negotiated peace here. I suspect that increased prosperity (and people being optimistic about their futures) in the U.K. and perhaps certain places abroad would reduce attacks but obviously that is hard to achieve and any effect is hard to measure.

Perhaps technology companies and encryption would be a bigger deal if terrorists were more competent but at the moment their opsec seems poor with many foiled plots (apparently—maybe these plots were exaggerated or never really viable) and only minor successes.

I'm sorry, but I would rather have the privacy encryption gives me than safety adding a backdoor would provide. Not to mention that authoritarian governments would abuse such a system left and right.

Cressida Dick was the one who gave the order to kill Carlos Mendes after MI5 wrongly identified him as a known terrorist on their watch list. In fact Carlos was innocent. Clowns to put it mildly.

The public's focus on refusing to install police cameras in every room of their home is making it impossible to stop The Terrorists and costing thousands of lives. Bookstores' and libraries' focus on selling any book they choose without our approval makes it so Radicals can recruit anyone, anywhere and at any time resulting in countless people thinking hateful or incorrect things.

Terrorism and violence has nothing to do with the police failing at their jobs or the upper classes gutting local communities, quality of life, art and spirituality or mismanaged and murderous foreign policy, or anything like that -- just give us more control and you will be happier and safer.

CSAM is terrorism now? Did the BBC mix up their notes on what nonsense to push as they work to end encryption?

Dear LEO everywhere. Whatever safety you pretend I'd get by letting you break everyone's encryption, I am declining it.

The horsemen of the privacy Apocalypse. Its always kiddie porn, terrorists or drugs.

Zero legs to stand on with that one. Someone whose job is to manage crime has no interest in stopping or preventing it, and their only interest is using crime as leverage for more powers and budget authority. This person presides over the most invasive domestic surveillance panopticon in the history of the world. There's no moral case or basis in fact for new powers, the public comment is just a signal or tracer flare for something else.

If I had private security and my house were broken into, I'd fire the security people and find new ones who could do the job, not let them move into my living room. Given the tools and resources they already have, the government should reduce police budgets and workforce every time there is a purse snatching so that they have some skin in the game.

"A form of psychological manipulation through warfare to the purpose of political or religious gains, by means of deliberately creating a climate of fear amongst the inhabitants of a specific geographical region."

Police like this person are lazy. They are interested in blanket wiretapping, because it is too much work to go to a judge to try to justify taking away someone's property (PC, phone etc.) to access encryption keys.

Credibility 2.0. https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/ecu/mayday-the-canister-on-the...

I am so tired of the lies. Encryption doesn't stop you from 'catching bad guys,' it only stops you from mass-spying.

Furthermore, I'd argue that the real 'bad guys' in the present day is LE its self. The acts that are punished these days are things like personal drug use, protesting, unfair tax evasion, human rights demonstrations, and whistle-blowing. All things that the people would like to engage in but the government wants to squash at all costs.

Again, who are the actual criminals??