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Under British and UK Legislation anyone using or developing end-to-end encryption is now a “hostile actor” (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Surveillance strategies in the UK and Israel often go global

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[–] attero@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There's a common saying in Germany that applies. Die spinnen, die Britten Basically translates to: "Those Brits are crazy", but the literal translation would be: "The Brits are spinning" (yarn).

Obelix knows best.

[–] 1stQ@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The spiders,
the Brits!
/s

What does it say in the original French version?