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Governments asks tech companies to build backdoors into encrypted devices

AnaSCI

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reported by: theverge

The US, UK, and three other governments have called on tech companies to build backdoors into their encrypted products, so that law enforcement will always be able to obtain access. If companies don’t, the governments say they “may pursue technological, enforcement, legislative, or other measures” in order to get into locked devices and services.

Their statement came out of a meeting last week between nations in the Five Eyes pact, an intelligence sharing agreement between the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The nations issued a statement covering a range of technology-related issues they face, but it was their remarks on encryption that stood out the most.

In their memo, the governments stress that these backdoors would only be for “lawful” access to a device, such as in a criminal investigation. And they plan to start by encouraging tech companies to voluntarily add them. But the backdoors would only be voluntary to a point, because the governments say that they might mandate a way in if they “continue to encounter impediments” to accessing encrypted data.

At this point, their request for a backdoor is more of a wish than a command or a threat. But the statement speaks to the growing movement against encryption by governments and lawmakers, who see it as an impediment to law enforcement. As encryption grows more and more accessible in the coming years, these requests are only likely to grow — and could eventually lead to action.

Tech companies have also been wary to comply. Adding a backdoor into their products would inherently mean that their promise of data privacy is broken. It would also open them up to similar requests from other countries, which could use the backdoor access for spying in inappropriate circumstances.

In addition to touching on encryption, the nations also issued a memo on keeping online spaces free from child predators, terrorists, and other bad actors. They asked tech companies to build tools that could prevent illegal content from “ever being uploaded,” while reiterating familiar requests like using humans and automated tools to remove existing content and collaborating across the industry to ID bad content so that it can’t spread.
 

Duluxx

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Scary times. The American government is so anti-American. Every time we give the government an inch of our freedoms they take more and more and people are ok with that. SMH An amazingly crazy time we live in.
 

K1

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The generation of sheep is pathetic...An entire generation of protesters and they're protesting stupid fucking shit like: "Hey, we'll give you our guns but you better make sure to give us $15/hr to work at fast food joints!!!!!!!" ...I mean WTF is that shit?!

It's all fine and dandy to have this generation being protesters because they're absolutely useless at everything else...But fuck, come on, try protesting real shit!!

Our social media pages are flooded with stupid American sheep...Republican this and Democrat that - Left this and Right that - Trump this and Clinton that - and so on and so forth...

I always ask either side a few questions...And if you can't answer YES to even one of them, then take your shit to the back of the bus with the rest of the sheep:

1) Does you party group it's social security in with yours, to assure that those funds are allocated in the best interest of the contributors (tax payers!)?

2) Does your party group it's medical coverage in with yours, to assure that proper heath care is readily available, affordably?

3) Does you party include you in their voting on salary increases...So that you can weigh what their production level for the previous year was truly worth?

4) Does your party impose term limits on their group, so that they will have to live the same as the people they represent at some point...Assuring that they will utilize their time in their political office to best serve the people they represent?

5) Does your party make sure to live in the communities they represent, to assure that they will perform their duties in the best interest of that community?

The moment you categorize yourself under a nation, a flag, a race, a party, etc...You've already lost and given them exactly what they want! Remember, while opinions are endless, there is only one truth, and that truth is ALL govts #1 priorities are to keep the sheep separated into groups...Easier to control!
 

Duluxx

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The generation of sheep is pathetic...An entire generation of protesters and they're protesting stupid fucking shit like: "Hey, we'll give you our guns but you better make sure to give us $15/hr to work at fast food joints!!!!!!!" ...I mean WTF is that shit?!



It's all fine and dandy to have this generation being protesters because they're absolutely useless at everything else...But fuck, come on, try protesting real shit!!



Our social media pages are flooded with stupid American sheep...Republican this and Democrat that - Left this and Right that - Trump this and Clinton that - and so on and so forth...



I always ask either side a few questions...And if you can't answer YES to even one of them, then take your shit to the back of the bus with the rest of the sheep:



1) Does you party group it's social security in with yours, to assure that those funds are allocated in the best interest of the contributors (tax payers!)?



2) Does your party group it's medical coverage in with yours, to assure that proper heath care is readily available, affordably?



3) Does you party include you in their voting on salary increases...So that you can weigh what their production level for the previous year was truly worth?



4) Does your party impose term limits on their group, so that they will have to live the same as the people they represent at some point...Assuring that they will utilize their time in their political office to best serve the people they represent?



5) Does your party make sure to live in the communities they represent, to assure that they will perform their duties in the best interest of that community?



The moment you categorize yourself under a nation, a flag, a race, a party, etc...You've already lost and given them exactly what they want! Remember, while opinions are endless, there is only one truth, and that truth is ALL govts #1 priorities are to keep the sheep separated into groups...Easier to control!



Well said!