US general attorney ask Facebook to install backdoor.

[phancong]

BGR NewsOctober 3, 2019, 2:35 PM PDT
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US Attorney General Bill Barr is scheduled to make some remarks at a Justice Department event Friday focused on how tech companies promoting encryption has hampered government access to information.

That’s according to a New York Timespreview of the event, which will come in tandem with a chilling demand from Barr: In a letter from President Trump’s AG to Facebook dated October 4, Barr asks the social networking giant to immediately halt its plan to expand end-to-end encryption across the company’s messaging services like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.

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If this sounds like the Apple vs. FBI fight all over again, that’s because that’s basically what this is — just on a much larger and scarier scale. That previous battle involved the FBI trying to gain access to a single locked iPhone (the one belonging to one of the San Bernadino terrorists. This time around, the government apparently wants so-called backdoor access that would allow it to peek into essentially any Facebook message until the end of time.

“Companies should not deliberately design their systems to preclude any form of access to content, even for preventing or investigating the most serious crimes,” reads Barr’s letter, which was also signed by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel, acting US Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, and Australian Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton. Outlets including both the NYT and Buzzfeed obtained the letter early.

This turn of events comes, it should be noted, in tandem with the next major paradigm shift happening at Facebook. Earlier this year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a shift of emphasis away from the public square aspect of the social network (which was on the decline anyway) to groups and private sharing — including, regarding the latter, a stitching together of the infrastructure behind Facebook’s messaging apps like Messenger and WhatsApp. And, also, supporting end-to-end encryption between them.

“We believe people have the right to have a private conversation online, wherever they are in the world,” reads a statement from Facebook in opposition to Barr’s letter. “…We strongly oppose government attempts to build backdoors because they would undermine the privacy and security of people everywhere.”

This will be a massively important fight to watch, one with global implications. What a strange moment in time this is, where events are threatening to cast Zuckerberg as the privacy champion he never set out to be.

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[khansaheeb]

Forget the back door they have keys to the front door. This is deception at it's worst and they are just putting more wool above the eyes.

 

[KAL-EL]

Don’t use Facebook then

 

[Fawadqasim1]

Forget the back door they have keys to the front door. This is deception at it's worst and they are just putting more wool above the eyes.

Absolutely

 

[khansaheeb]

Don’t use Facebook then

Only fools do.

 

[PeaceGen]

BGR NewsOctober 3, 2019, 2:35 PM PDT
Click here to read the full article.

US Attorney General Bill Barr is scheduled to make some remarks at a Justice Department event Friday focused on how tech companies promoting encryption has hampered government access to information.

That’s according to a New York Timespreview of the event, which will come in tandem with a chilling demand from Barr: In a letter from President Trump’s AG to Facebook dated October 4, Barr asks the social networking giant to immediately halt its plan to expand end-to-end encryption across the company’s messaging services like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.

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• WhatsApp is testing disappearing messages
  
  
• 'Storm Area 51' event results in a few dozen people acting weird in the desert
  
  
• Facebook is working on AR glasses it thinks can replace your iPhone and Android

If this sounds like the Apple vs. FBI fight all over again, that’s because that’s basically what this is — just on a much larger and scarier scale. That previous battle involved the FBI trying to gain access to a single locked iPhone (the one belonging to one of the San Bernadino terrorists. This time around, the government apparently wants so-called backdoor access that would allow it to peek into essentially any Facebook message until the end of time.

“Companies should not deliberately design their systems to preclude any form of access to content, even for preventing or investigating the most serious crimes,” reads Barr’s letter, which was also signed by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel, acting US Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, and Australian Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton. Outlets including both the NYT and Buzzfeed obtained the letter early.

This turn of events comes, it should be noted, in tandem with the next major paradigm shift happening at Facebook. Earlier this year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a shift of emphasis away from the public square aspect of the social network (which was on the decline anyway) to groups and private sharing — including, regarding the latter, a stitching together of the infrastructure behind Facebook’s messaging apps like Messenger and WhatsApp. And, also, supporting end-to-end encryption between them.

“We believe people have the right to have a private conversation online, wherever they are in the world,” reads a statement from Facebook in opposition to Barr’s letter. “…We strongly oppose government attempts to build backdoors because they would undermine the privacy and security of people everywhere.”

This will be a massively important fight to watch, one with global implications. What a strange moment in time this is, where events are threatening to cast Zuckerberg as the privacy champion he never set out to be.

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• You’d have to be nuts to pass up Sony’s $200 true wireless earbuds while they’re on sale for $69.99

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• The Google Maps feature we’ve been waiting for is finally here
  
  
• An insider just confirmed that this leaked PS5 design is real
  
  
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i support governments having access to everything a person's ever done online, including private messages.

facebook and other tech companies should focus on securing access to private online data of users without harming this government ability.

fighting serious crime in the online age requires it.

 

[master_13]

Don’t use Facebook then

don't accuse other country installing so called "backdoor", especially when you have no proof and especially installing backdoor is being forced by the US government on its own tech companies.

 

[KAL-EL]

don't accuse other country installing so called "backdoor", especially when you have no proof and especially installing backdoor is being forced by the US government on its own tech companies.

Didn’t accuse anyone of anything. I simply said “don’t use Facebook then”