
Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance issues statement demanding encryption backdoors
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:
- James Comey, Former Director of the FBI
- Christopher Wray, Director of the FBI
- Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General
- Amber Rudd, Former UK Home Secretary
- Theresa May, UK Prime Minister
- Malcolm Turnbull, Australian Prime Minister
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.”
Let’s Hash it Out

