The director general of the British security organization, Andrew Parker, defends "unique access to "sent messages. This is one of the divisions between the government authorities and the technology companies and users.
Encryption is nowhere for Halftones
The security of all current communications is possible due to encryption. We're not talking about privacy of a friend with iMessage, we're talking about using Apple Pay Cash to send money or securely sync access authentication in our bank account
At the end of the encryption, when only we and the team can decide to communicate, there are no words in between. Or to communicate is it safe or not. Why? Because the servers where the hidden information is circulating have no access to the encrypted keys.
Installing the system to access these buttons should create a huge security hole in all communications. As Tim Cook once said: "You can't have a door for these good people", these bad guys will get it," weakened the secret to cancer. "
Despite the opposition of tech companies and the wider public, who have exhausted various efforts to streamline the cryptocurrencies at the bay, the United Kingdom remains committed empty applications. They have long argued that encrypted messaging services, such as Telegram, WhatsApp or iMessage, represent a “western” area of uncontrolled territory where terrorists can roam freely.
In the words of Andrew Parker, there seems to be a "growing confusion" that intelligence agencies like him you cannot read messages easily The secrets of the terrorist suspects they watch.
Flying flies with a canon gun
At first glance the MI5 administrator request seems reasonable. You have written content for everyone and you submit an order to the court accessing the content. What is the error of this method? Simplified, it is completely impossible. Slowing down the encryption system in the hope that only law enforcement agencies will use that weakness, yes, wait a long time.
But above all, and it is something that will attract more than one student, we truly believe that Are terrorists planning their attacks on WhatsApp?
Those who give up the important freedom to buy some security do not want one or the other and end up losing both – Benjamin Franklin.
Of course there must be a balance between telecommunications security and criminal investigations, but, that the solution is not worse than the disease, that we do not lose both. Computer programs keep us safe, text communications keep us safe, or do we want anyone to access computers that control the country's electricity network? We do not know the number of people investigated by MI5, but the average in relation to users of communication tools cannot reach 1%. Threaten billions of people
This was revealed by a spokesperson for "Privacy International", a technology rights group:
The fact is that these major technology forums are international companies: giving the UK police a role model would mean police around the world can use force to the bases to watch activists and activists, from Hong Kong to Honduras. "
With requests such as these from the United Kingdom in this case, or the FBI in the context of a few shootings, it seems the intelligence agencies want to make the public view of the encryption unnecessary and unfair. Could it be that they were familiar monitor all communications worldwide? Give it a feeling, actually.