This week, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel accused Facebook of aiding child molesters, drug dealers and terrorists. According to Patel, end-to-end encryption helps criminals to hide their correspondence, while law enforcement officers cannot gain access to important data for the investigation.
So it turns out that some countries and Internet giants cannot get along with each other - some want to provide access to correspondence that can serve as evidence in court proceedings, while others want to protect the correspondence of respectable users.
Representatives of the countries participating in the Five Eyes alliance came to the conclusion that it is necessary to force large corporations to provide a backdoor in encryption:
The Government Communications Center (GCHQ), a UK intelligence agency, has proposed its solution to the issue - Ghost Protocol. The corporations behind the messengers responded that this approach would lead to vulnerabilities that could be used against ordinary users.
Recall that the head of the FBI said that backdoors will not weaken your encryption and will not harm your privacy. Earlier, US Attorney General William Barr emphasized that users should accept the risks of introducing backdoors into encryption and come to terms with them. Security services' access to encrypted communications is more important than personal cyber security risks, Barr said.
