We return to the polemic that attacks us the last few months, it seems that it won’t finish give conversation topic about software encrypting and how prevents this Governments and authorities to meddle in our private life for the sake of the “common good”. In this case are France and Germany who begin to ask for legislation at European level about the possible involvement of messaging applications in anticipation of possible illegal or dangerous actions. In the absence of a specific regulation, the French Interior Minister has requested the European Union a Commission with the intention of clarifying the matter.
Bernard Cazeneuve has been in the hands of the German Minister of Interior on this issue, in a move coordinated front media intending to confirm the abortion of a terrorist attack and notify your interest in intervention by government authorities in instant messaging and your software teams. Both France as Germany plan request to the Union European a legislation community that les allow intervene in the applications of messaging, pry in them, but always under the pretext of that it make by our well.
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 the encryption of WhatsApp, which prevents its easy intervention, and at the same time it blocks it. Of this mode, not only ask the power of enter is in them talks of any, but want the welcome of the applications of messaging, and that to your time are them 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 hands of Open Whisper Systems (related Edwar Snowden) the task of creating an encrypted end to end to WhatsApp. Them key of encryption are in the device, i.e., when send a message through WhatsApp, this message comes encrypted and is illegible, however, automatically the system receiver has of them means to decode it and translate it to text flat. 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.
