I’m more concerned about OpenBSD. Given how centralized the project governance is, and its base in Canada, I can imagine the government attempting to (for example) force the project to serve backdoored images or updates to targeted people. A backdoor or bugdoor in the source would probably be spotted by someone, and I’m not even sure the bill allows a broad tool like that, but that’s not the only way to compromise software users.
Fortunately the mirrors are distributed, so maybe that reduces the risk.
Despite the hype, crypto is traceable. It is harder than other currencies and one transaction is probably untraceable. However if you are running a business you are going to get repeated payments from customers and repeatedly pay your employees and suppliers, which in turn creates enough data that they can track you down.
It's not relevant. The moment criminality (in the view of other nations with these kinds of laws) hosts itself there, they'll find themselves hauled in front of the UK courts, and find that their "micro nation" isn't recognised and that the UK both claims jurisdiction over them and is able to enforce it.
It was amended to make them less likely, but even the Liberals are saying that it can still be used to target encryption.
And the legislation still requires mandatory data retention and interception capabilities for all VPNs, encrypted messaging services, and every other online service.
Fortunately the mirrors are distributed, so maybe that reduces the risk.
And the legislation still requires mandatory data retention and interception capabilities for all VPNs, encrypted messaging services, and every other online service.