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The broken record: Why Barr’s call against end-to-end encryption is nuts

October 5, 2019/in Internet Security

The US, UK, and Australia want Facebook to hold off on end-to-end encrypting Messenger until they have a way to inject themselves into the conversation.

Here we go again.

US Attorney General William Barr is leading a charge to press Facebook and other Internet services to terminate end-to-end encryption efforts—this time in the name of fighting child pornography. Barr, acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan, Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, and United Kingdom Secretary of State Priti Patel yesterday asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to hold off on plans to implement end-to-end encryption across all Facebook Messenger services “without including a means for lawful access to the content of communications to protect our citizens.”

The open letter comes months after Barr said in a speech that “warrant-proof” cryptography is “extinguishing the ability of law enforcement to obtain evidence essential to detecting and investigating crimes” and allowing “criminals to operate with impunity, hiding their activities under an impenetrable cloak of secrecy.” The new message echoes a joint communiqué issued by the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand (the “Five Eyes”) from July, which stated:

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End-to-end encryption doesn’t stop the FBI reading your messages. Just ask Paul Manafort

June 6, 2018/in Computer Security

End-to-end encryption is really neat, but it only encrypts *between* those who are doing the communicating.

Graham Cluley

Lavabit developer has a new encrypted, end-to-end email protocol

January 21, 2017/in Computer Security

The developer behind Lavabit, an email service that noted leaker Edward Snowden used, is releasing source code for an open-source end-to-end encrypted email standard that promises surveillance-proof messaging.

The code for the Dark Internet Mail Environment (DIME) standard will become available on Github, along with an associated mail server program, said its developer Ladar Levison on Friday.

DIME will work across different service providers and perhaps crucially will be “flexible enough to allow users to continue using their email without a Ph.D. in cryptology,” said Levison.

To coincide with its launch, Levison is also reviving Lavabit. The encrypted email service shut down in 2013 when federal agents investigating Snowden demanded access to email messages of his 410,000 customers, including their private encryption keys.

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