David Cameron vs. Encrypted Communication



    According to the BBC, the British Prime Minister in his speech announced that if he was re-elected for the next term, he will definitely promote a ban on online communication tools that encrypt their traffic and do not have backdoors for special services. Referring to recent Paris events, he said: “The Paris attacks have shown the size of the threat that confronts us, and we need our security and intelligence agencies to be fully capable of protecting our people.” And he added: “Will we allow such communication methods that we cannot read? No, we must not do this! ”

    Of course, it is not known whether Cameron will implement his statements after re-election or not, however, scandals with wiretapping and discussions of the right to privacy have been haunting the public, governments and special services for the last couple of years. After the revelations of Snowden , who received asylum in Russia (where, by the way, he enjoys living ), who revealed to the world the details of the surveillance of US and British special services for citizens ( PRISM program , etc.), the topic of citizens' rights and the prevention of terrorist attacks has reached a new level.

    Let me remind you that after Apple and Google began to encrypt their mobile OSes in connection with the exacerbation of the problem with wiretapping, US intelligence services raised the question of the need to force these companiesmake backdoors in smartphones for special services .

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