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Sky tale encryption12/8/2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() She told Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme: “End-to-end encryption has a place. Later, she clarified her views on encryption. She put the emphasis on working with the tech companies to find a solution rather sweeping legislation. ![]() They do they may not have anything to fear from the government, but they would be vulnerable to criminals who would also take advantage of a lack of encryption.įortunately, Rudd appears not to want to go down that road. But idea that “the innocent have nothing to fear” does not stand up to scrutiny. Some argue banning end-to-end encryption entirely is a price worth paying for greater safety. However, it is not clear how you would enforce that – and indeed it would be the people who do not want to be monitored who would find ways to avoid it. So how do you allow security services access to terrorist communications? The UK government could conceivably ban messaging companies that offer end-to-end encryption from operating in the UK. If you put a backdoor in, it’s there not just for security services to exploit, but for cyber-criminals, oppressive regimes and anyone else. While you can legislate to only give state agencies access to terrorists’ communications, and with proper oversight and authorisation, you cannot actually build encryption that works like that. If a backdoor exists, then anyone can exploit it.” The technology just doesn’t work that way. As the security expert Bruce Schneier has written: “I can’t build an access technology that only works with proper legal authorisation, or only for people with a particular citizenship or the proper morality. Either something is encrypted, and thus secure from everyone, or it’s not. WhatsApp must not be ‘secret place for terrorists to communicate’, says home secretary GuardianĬameron’s legislation has not happened, and there’s a simple reason encryption is a binary. ![]()
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