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US and UK as well as Australia, are set to write to Facebook to request that the company pauses its plans for cross-platform messaging encryption until backdoors can be added, citing public safety and serious crime as its reasons, according to Forbes.
EFF described the letter as an “all-out attack on encryption… a staggering attempt to undermine the security and privacy of communications tools used by billions of people,” and urged Facebook not to comply. The organization warned that the move would endanger activists and journalists, and could be used by “authoritarian regimes… to spy on dissidents in the name of combatting terrorism or civil unrest.”
The way end-to-end encryption works is to leave the keys with the message sender and recipient—the platform has no ability to access content. That’s the primary security provision.
A key is a key, the platforms say, and once you have the ability to access content it becomes inherently insecure. And so, for governments to access content, the platforms need to change their architectures, they need to add backdoors that they themselves and law enforcement can access. Keys will no longer be limited to users.