Top Cryptographers and Privacy Advocates React to Government Requests to ‘Back-Door’ Encrypted Communication Methods
Government ‘Requests’ Back Doors Built into Encrypted Messenger Apps
In recent days there has been what some are calling a ‘coordinated push’ by government agencies demanding back doors into encrypted conversations. The governing bodies in question, namely that of the United States and the United Kingdom (once safe havens for personal privacy and the ability to speak freely), are effectively mandating that back doors into end-to-end encryption communication apps such as WhatsApp are shared allowing for the ability to spy on users conversations. The FBI and The Justice Department cited a desire to ‘save vitims, protect families, and stop child predators’ chiefly among the recent increase in pressure.
The narrative changes, but the tactic remains the same. The United States government has repeatedly resorted to fear-mongering its citizens into relinquishing their rights to privacy and security. What they fail to consider, or fail to acknowledge instead, is that this type of behavior encourages those committing unlawful acts to seek increasingly secure and lesser-known alternatives to act out these crimes, while leaving the average person that much more deprived of their privacy.
Wiki Leak’s Edward Snowden Reacts to news of General William P Barr’s alleged plans to press Facebook into creating a so-called ‘back door’ into WhatsApp and *other messaging platforms.
John Hopkin’s professor of Cryptography and author of a cryptography engineering blog, Matthew Green points at the shifting narrative of the U.S. government’s appeal to be granted encryption backdoors.
Green previously sighted similar happenings in the United Kingdom in a recent article published by Bloomberg on September 28th.
Security researcher, Lance R Vick, founder of Hashbang.sh, a free, open, and security-focused smartphone operating system, chimed in as well asserting that there is ‘no future for privacy or security tools that are centralized or proprietary.’
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