Maybe the government should have a group that can decrypt messages when presented with a valid order from a court of jurisdiction. đ
]]>FORGET APPLE VS. THE FBI: WHATSAPP JUST SWITCHED ON ENCRYPTION FOR A BILLION PEOPLE
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This means that if any group of people uses the latest version of WhatsAppâwhether that group spans two people or tenâthe service will encrypt all messages, phone calls, photos, and videos moving among them. And thatâs true on any phone that runs the app, from iPhones to Android phones to Windows phones to old school Nokia flip phones. With end-to-end encryption in place, not even WhatsAppâs employees can read the data thatâs sent across its network. In other words, WhatsApp has no way of complying with a court order demanding access to the content of any message, phone call, photo, or video traveling through its service. Like Apple, WhatsApp is, in practice, stonewalling the federal government, but itâs doing so on a larger frontâone that spans roughly a billion devices.âBuilding secure products actually makes for a safer world, (though) many people in law enforcement may not agree with that,â says Acton, who was employee number forty-four at Internet giant Yahoo before co-founding WhatsApp in 2009 alongside Koum, one of his old Yahoo colleagues. With encryption, Acton explains, anyone can conduct business or talk to a doctor without worrying about eavesdroppers. With encryption, he says, you can even be a whistleblowerâand not worry.
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]]>Twitter is all over Iceland’s government scrambling to avoid elections because they fear the Pirate Party would win! LOL And they probably would! đ đ
Appropriate to the title of this thread, this: THE SENATEâS DRAFT ENCRYPTION BILL IS âLUDICROUS, DANGEROUS, TECHNICALLY ILLITERATEâ
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Kevin Bankston, the director of the New America Foundationâs Open Technology Institute, goes even further: âI gotta say in my nearly 20 years of work in tech policy this is easily the most ludicrous, dangerous, technically illiterate proposal Iâve ever seen,â he says.
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One of my favorite comments is: “The Feinstein Burr encryption bill is what happens when people who canât send emails try to regulate advanced tech!” and this “If Grandpa Simpson was a Senator who was afraid of and confused by encryption, I think he’d write something like the Feinstein/Burr bill.” LOL
They can’t tie their own shoelaces either IMNSHO! đż
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