Return to the controversial that US attacks them last months, seems that not goes to end of give conversation the theme about the encryption of the software and how prevents this to them Governments and authorities interfere is in our life private in the interests of the “well common”. In this case are France and Germany who begin to request legislation to level European about the possible intervention of the applications of messaging for anticipate is to possible actions illegal or dangerous. To lack of a regulation specific, the Minister of Interior French has requested to the Union European a Commission with the intention of clarify the matter.
Bernard Cazeneuve has gone of the hand of the Minister of inside German in this affair, in a movement coordinated facing them media of information with the intention of confirm the abortion of an attack terrorist and notify your interest in it intervention from them powers Government in them teams of Messaging Instant and its software. Both France and Germany plan to ask the European Union Community legislation enabling them to intervene in the messaging application, snoop around in them, but always under the pretext that do it for our sake.
We propose that the Commission explore the possibility of legislating the rights and obligations of the operators to force them to remove illegal content as well as decoding messages to assist with investigations, both if they depart from Europe as if non – Bernard Cazeneuve.
This increasingly censor is more aimed to become big brother, a communications system that we will be free to say what they want, always with the eye alert. With this, they intend to data capture intervening WhatsApp and Telegram can be used in court proceedings, having as proof. The problem it raises the encryption of WhatsApp, that prevents its easy intervention, and to the same time it blocks. In this way, not only ask for the power to enter into any talks, they want the imprimatur of messaging applications, and that in turn are they those who facilitate the task. A movement that is quite similar to the FBI in the case against Apple.
What is this encryption and why problematic?
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The encryption of the talks through the Messaging Instant is causing problems for intercept them communications, when these are used by terrorist. France already is given in the case of a young detainee by disseminating messages on behalf of the ISIS through an instant messaging application.
In the case of Telegram, encryption is something that was always present, however, end-to-end WhatsApp integrated it about a year ago. WhatsApp put in the hands of Open Whisper Systems (related Edwar Snowden) the task of creating end-to-end encryption for WhatsApp. The encryption keys are on the device, i.e., when we send a message through WhatsApp, this message is encrypted and unreadable, however, automatically the receiving system has the means to decode it and translate it into plain text. Therefore, the messages never could be intercepted in the server, good, to be clear, if that could be intercepted, but not could interpret is as text readable as it know.
Whenever we initiated a conversation, added a key to each device, therefore, every message that we maintain with each user is encrypted differently, so find a conversation encryption key only us would serve for that, what it would end up making useless and arduous the task of intercepting them. For this, use the Protocol Signal designed by the company previously mentioned (Open Whisper Systems). According to WhatsApp, their encryption is even more secure that which employs Telegram, although must remember that not there is nothing 100% safe in the network, except be disconnected clear. In short, hope to the movement of the Union European and its decision to the respect.
