Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance issues statement demanding encryption backdoors

Patrik Nohe
Sep 4, 2018 · 1 min read

The five member states threaten tech companies with legislation is they don’t weaken their encryption

One of the unfortunate things we track here at Hashed Out are calls from law enforcement officials and politicians for “responsible encryption” and/or encryption backdoors. At this point, I feel like it happens about once a month and so far we have gotten dumb requests to weaken encryption from the likes of:

And many, many more. So, it shouldn’t really come as a surprise that when the US, UK and Australia get together (along with New Zealand and Canada) as part of the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance, that they would combine powers and come up with a monumentally stupid joint statement requesting weakened encryption and/or encryption backdoors.

They did not disappoint.

The Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance has issued a “Statement of Principles on Access to Evidence and Encryption.”

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Editor-in-Chief of Hashed Out by The SSL Store™. Ex-Miami Herald. FWAA Member. Atlanta native.

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