US AG and officials from UK and Australia call on Facebook to stop plans for end-to-end encryption across its messaging apps, citing public safety risks
not just for us, but also for the billions living under tyranny who can't. https://twitter.com/... Chris Daw QC / @crimlawuk : If the authorities need to have the ability to invade privacy online, purely because a fraction of 1 per cent of people are involved in child abuse / indecent images - why don't they need cameras and microphones in every home for the same reason? https://www.theguardian.com/ ... Alex Howard / @digiphile : Child pornography is a global plague https://www.nytimes.com/... ...but encryption protects the privacy of billions. Choose security & liberty: https://www.huffpost.com/... And @FBI: how many @WhiteHouse officials are _still_ using “warrant-proof encryption?” Why? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Grady Booch / @grady_booch : A back door for encryption is as useful as a screen door on a submarine. https://twitter.com/... @eff : Today's open letter to Facebook is an attempt to undermine privacy on a platform used by billions of people. Facebook should not comply. https://www.eff.org/... Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald : Conservatives claiming to value privacy, to support a limited governmental role in our lives, and who cheered the Snowden revelations during the Obama years should be most outraged by this attempt to destroy privacy and place unprecedented spying power in the government's hands: https://twitter.com/... Eric Geller / @ericgeller : DOJ knows this won't do anything but wants to be seen trying. Even with all the other battles it's fighting, someone thought it would be smart to reignite this one. https://twitter.com/... Edward Snowden / @snowden : Oh hey, turns out it's even worse; it's more than just #WhatsApp, it's all FB-owned messaging: “Attorney General William P. Barr is set to press @Facebook on Friday to create a so-called back door to its end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp ***AND OTHER MESSAGING PLATFORMS***” Jake Williams / @malwarejake : Any time someone says “don't do end to end encryption, we can keep the data safe” just remind them of Shadow Brokers. We still don't even know how the Shadow Brokers stole the data they leaked (which included ETERNALBLUE, fueling WannaCry & NotPetya). 1/2 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Ryan Mac / @rmac18 : We now have the full letter from Bill Barr and others to Mark Zuckerberg in our story. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Chris Bing / @bing_chris : The Barr letter to Facebook is a big deal. Government now openly discouraging proliferation of end-to-end encryption Kyle Baker / @kylebaker : Broken record disclaimer: e2e encryption isn't bad, and doesn't make public safety worse. We have studies, a lot more since Snowden even that prove such encryption doesn't make us safer or worse off. https://twitter.com/... Rat King / @mikeisaac : Facebook spox response on Barr encryption memo, below https://twitter.com/... Hazem A. M. Awad,PhD / @hazem_awad : Since when was any/ most governments around the world really concerned with user privacy lol. They are literally asking for a backdoor into people's private communications. For all Facebook's faults, I'm glad they are siding with the right to privacy here @webhat https://twitter.com/... Patrick Howell O'Neill / @howelloneill : This is definitely important but (I've seen this idea floating around) it's not “literally apple v fbi” part 2. Apple v fbi involved actual legal orders compelling Cupertino to write new code that Apple had to oppose in court. this looks like just an open letter. https://twitter.com/... @eff : We must not lose sight of the huge benefits that secure, private encryption provides us all. https://www.eff.org/... Steve Kovach / @stevekovach : Besides the FBI snooping stuff, slowing Facebook down on integrating Instagram/Messenger/WhatsApp is helpful for a potential breakup. https://twitter.com/... Eva / @evacide : I do not want your encryption backdoors I do not want them in a box I do not want them with a fox I do not want them here or there I do not want them anywhere Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers : The People: “Facebook must respect our privacy!” Mark Zuckerberg: “Yeah, OK, here's end-to-end encryption across all of our apps.” Attorney General Bill Barr: “Facebook must not be too private!” Zuckerberg: 🤔 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
The government is demanding backdoor access to the private communications of 1.5 billion people using #WhatsApp. If @Facebook agrees, it may be the largest overnight violation of privacy in history. https://www.nytimes.com/...
We were able to see a draft open letter from Bill Barr (and officials in the UK and Oz) to Mark Zuckerberg asking for Facebook to halt the roll out of e2e encryption across its apps. This may get ugly. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
When a door opens for the US, Australia, or Britain, it also opens for hackers around the world. Companies should resist these attempts to weaken encryption that reliably protects our sensitive data from identity thieves, credit card fraud, and human rights abusers. https://twitt…
So I guess we're getting a new coordinated push for encryption backdoors of some kind. This time based around child exploitation, rather than terrorism.
This is a critical fight for tech and they need to stay firm on resisting pressure to put in back doors for the government as they did with the Obama administration: https://www.nytimes.com/... via @nytimes
Meanwhile, not content with just attacking freedom of movement, @patel4witham now wants to take away our right to privacy as well. She wants to force @Facebook to build a backdoor into Messenger and Whatsapp so she can monitor what we talk about. ~PM https://www.bbc.co.uk/...
The Brits and Aussie have been seeking a backdoor to encrypted apps. If Barr has his way reporting on government and diplomacy will face a pretty massive setback. https://twitter.com/...
I like @doctorow's longstanding framing of this issue. There is only working encryption or non-working encryption. There's no such thing as a “back door” that only lawful authorities can access. https://twitter.com/...
Any politician asking for backdoor access to your private information is a politician that doesn't give a damn about you or your safety. Vote out ANYONE asking for this, Republican or Democrat. It's the nuclear weapon of bad ideas. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Without privacy, democracy will die. *Now* is the time to take a stand for encrypted speech and payments. Those of us who live in democracies need to raise our voice and push back against surveillance — not just for us, but also for the billions living under tyranny who can't. ht…
If the authorities need to have the ability to invade privacy online, purely because a fraction of 1 per cent of people are involved in child abuse / indecent images - why don't they need cameras and microphones in every home for the same reason? https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Child pornography is a global plague https://www.nytimes.com/... ...but encryption protects the privacy of billions. Choose security & liberty: https://www.huffpost.com/... And @FBI: how many @WhiteHouse officials are _still_ using “warrant-proof encryption?” Why? https://www.was…
Today's open letter to Facebook is an attempt to undermine privacy on a platform used by billions of people. Facebook should not comply. https://www.eff.org/...
Conservatives claiming to value privacy, to support a limited governmental role in our lives, and who cheered the Snowden revelations during the Obama years should be most outraged by this attempt to destroy privacy and place unprecedented spying power in the government's hands: …
DOJ knows this won't do anything but wants to be seen trying. Even with all the other battles it's fighting, someone thought it would be smart to reignite this one. https://twitter.com/...
Oh hey, turns out it's even worse; it's more than just #WhatsApp, it's all FB-owned messaging: “Attorney General William P. Barr is set to press @Facebook on Friday to create a so-called back door to its end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp ***AND OTHER MESSAGING PLATFORMS***”
Any time someone says “don't do end to end encryption, we can keep the data safe” just remind them of Shadow Brokers. We still don't even know how the Shadow Brokers stole the data they leaked (which included ETERNALBLUE, fueling WannaCry & NotPetya). 1/2 https://www.buzzfeednews…
Broken record disclaimer: e2e encryption isn't bad, and doesn't make public safety worse. We have studies, a lot more since Snowden even that prove such encryption doesn't make us safer or worse off. https://twitter.com/...
Since when was any/ most governments around the world really concerned with user privacy lol. They are literally asking for a backdoor into people's private communications. For all Facebook's faults, I'm glad they are siding with the right to privacy here @webhat https://twitter.…
This is definitely important but (I've seen this idea floating around) it's not “literally apple v fbi” part 2. Apple v fbi involved actual legal orders compelling Cupertino to write new code that Apple had to oppose in court. this looks like just an open letter. https://twitter.…
Besides the FBI snooping stuff, slowing Facebook down on integrating Instagram/Messenger/WhatsApp is helpful for a potential breakup. https://twitter.com/...
I do not want your encryption backdoors I do not want them in a box I do not want them with a fox I do not want them here or there I do not want them anywhere
The People: “Facebook must respect our privacy!” Mark Zuckerberg: “Yeah, OK, here's end-to-end encryption across all of our apps.” Attorney General Bill Barr: “Facebook must not be too private!” Zuckerberg: 🤔 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...