WhatsApp, Threema, Wire and Telegram to cooperate and decrypt in Germany
According to SPIEGEL information, the Ministry of the Interior (Germany) wants to force providers such as WhatsApp, Threema, Wire and Telegram to cooperate and decrypt. They are to give readable chats to the authorities on a court order.
Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) wants to give security authorities access to standard end-to-end encrypted chats and telephone calls. Messenger services such as WhatsApp or Telegram are to be obligated to record the communications of their customers on court order and send them to the authorities - in readable form, i.e. unencrypted. As SPIEGEL reports in its current issue, providers who do not comply with this obligation should be able to be blocked for Germany by order of the Federal Network Agency.
So far, only so-called source telecommunications surveillance is legally possible. To do this, you have to play a Trojan on each suspect's smartphone. The new obligations are to be launched by the end of the year.
The project is provoking protests from the companies concerned. Like WhatsApp, many offer their customers complete encryption ("end-to-end") of all communication content and so far have no access to such messages themselves. "This would have catastrophic consequences," says Alan Duric, co-founder of Wire, the Berlin-based messenger service. The project is dangerous, it would expose users to unacceptable risks.
The creators of Threema, of whose approximately five million users more than 80 percent live in the German-speaking world, are also reacting negatively. "Absolute confidentiality of communication" is "in the DNA of Threema", said a company spokesman. "We are not prepared to make any compromises. They do not have any infrastructure in Germany and therefore do not fall under German law. Should Germany want to prevent the use of Threema, "the country would seamlessly join the ranks of totalitarian states such as China or Iran".
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/horst-seehofer-will-messengerdienste-zum-entschluesseln-zwingen-a-1269121.html
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According to SPIEGEL information, the Ministry of the Interior (Germany) wants to force providers such as WhatsApp, Threema, Wire and Telegram to cooperate and decrypt. They are to give readable chats to the authorities on a court order.
Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) wants to give security authorities access to standard end-to-end encrypted chats and telephone calls. Messenger services such as WhatsApp or Telegram are to be obligated to record the communications of their customers on court order and send them to the authorities - in readable form, i.e. unencrypted. As SPIEGEL reports in its current issue, providers who do not comply with this obligation should be able to be blocked for Germany by order of the Federal Network Agency.
So far, only so-called source telecommunications surveillance is legally possible. To do this, you have to play a Trojan on each suspect's smartphone. The new obligations are to be launched by the end of the year.
The project is provoking protests from the companies concerned. Like WhatsApp, many offer their customers complete encryption ("end-to-end") of all communication content and so far have no access to such messages themselves. "This would have catastrophic consequences," says Alan Duric, co-founder of Wire, the Berlin-based messenger service. The project is dangerous, it would expose users to unacceptable risks.
The creators of Threema, of whose approximately five million users more than 80 percent live in the German-speaking world, are also reacting negatively. "Absolute confidentiality of communication" is "in the DNA of Threema", said a company spokesman. "We are not prepared to make any compromises. They do not have any infrastructure in Germany and therefore do not fall under German law. Should Germany want to prevent the use of Threema, "the country would seamlessly join the ranks of totalitarian states such as China or Iran".
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/horst-seehofer-will-messengerdienste-zum-entschluesseln-zwingen-a-1269121.html
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Seehofer will Messengerdienste zum Entschlüsseln zwingen
Das Innenministerium will nach SPIEGEL-Informationen Anbieter wie WhatsApp, Threema und Telegram zur Kooperation zwingen. Sie sollen auf richterliche Anordnung Chats in lesbarer Form an Behörden geben.
Letter to the eff (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Dear ladies and gentlemen,
The legal situation in the EU and especially in Germany is getting worse every week.
After the upload filters, the state now demands that backdoors be built into the new 5G network so that the state can listen in and stingrays can be used effectively again (https://fm4.orf.at/stories/2982118/).
The highlight today is the news that Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) wants to give security authorities access to standard end-to-end encrypted chats and telephone calls.
Messenger services such as WhatsApp or Telegram are to be obligated to record the communication of their customers on court order and send it to the authorities - in readable form, i.e. unencrypted. As SPIEGEL reports in its current issue, providers who do not comply with this obligation should be able to be blocked for Germany by order of the Federal Network Agency. (https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/horst-seehofer-will-messengerdienste-zum-entschluesseln-zwingen-a-1269121.html)
These are all serious measures and the EU and Germany in particular are increasingly developing into a surveillance state.
We need help, we need attention, we need to make people think.
I would be happy to hear from you and be very grateful for any advice.
Yours sincerely
📡 @NoGoolag
#eff #decrypt #whatsapp #telegram #wire #threema #germany #statetrojan #backdoor #why #eu
Dear ladies and gentlemen,
The legal situation in the EU and especially in Germany is getting worse every week.
After the upload filters, the state now demands that backdoors be built into the new 5G network so that the state can listen in and stingrays can be used effectively again (https://fm4.orf.at/stories/2982118/).
The highlight today is the news that Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) wants to give security authorities access to standard end-to-end encrypted chats and telephone calls.
Messenger services such as WhatsApp or Telegram are to be obligated to record the communication of their customers on court order and send it to the authorities - in readable form, i.e. unencrypted. As SPIEGEL reports in its current issue, providers who do not comply with this obligation should be able to be blocked for Germany by order of the Federal Network Agency. (https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/horst-seehofer-will-messengerdienste-zum-entschluesseln-zwingen-a-1269121.html)
These are all serious measures and the EU and Germany in particular are increasingly developing into a surveillance state.
We need help, we need attention, we need to make people think.
I would be happy to hear from you and be very grateful for any advice.
Yours sincerely
📡 @NoGoolag
#eff #decrypt #whatsapp #telegram #wire #threema #germany #statetrojan #backdoor #why #eu
Germany mulls giving end-to-end chat app encryption das boot: Law requiring decrypted plain-text is in the works
Officials want to upgrade rules from device searching to message interception
Government officials in Germany are reportedly mulling a law to force chat app providers to hand over end-to-end encrypted conversations in plain text on demand.
According to Der Spiegel this month, the Euro nation's Ministry of the Interior wants a new set of rules that would require operators of services like WhatsApp, Signal, Apple iMessage, and Telegram to cough up plain-text records of people's private enciphered chats to authorities that obtain a court order.
This would expand German law, which right now only allows communications to be gathered from a suspect's device itself, to also include the companies providing encrypted chat services and software. True and strong end-to-end encrypted conversations can only be decrypted by those participating in the discussion, so the proposed rules would require app makers to deliberately knacker or backdoor their code in order to comply. Those changes would be needed to allow them to collect messages passing through their systems and decrypt them on demand.
Up until now, German police have opted not to bother with trying to decrypt the contents of messages in transit, opting instead to simply seize and break into the device itself, where the messages are typically stored in plain text.
The new rules are set to be discussed by the members of the interior ministry in an upcoming June conference, and are likely to face stiff opposition not only on privacy grounds, but also in regards to the technical feasibility of the requirements.
Spokespeople for Facebook-owned WhatsApp, and Threema, makers of encrypted messaging software, were not available to comment.
The rules are the latest in an ongoing global feud between the developers of secure messaging apps and the governments. The apps, designed in part to let citizens, journalists, and activists communicate secured from the prying eyes of oppressive government regimes.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/28/german_government_encryption/
Read as well:
Germany Seeks Access to Encrypted Messages on WhatsApp, Telegram
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/germany-seeks-access-to-encrypted/
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Officials want to upgrade rules from device searching to message interception
Government officials in Germany are reportedly mulling a law to force chat app providers to hand over end-to-end encrypted conversations in plain text on demand.
According to Der Spiegel this month, the Euro nation's Ministry of the Interior wants a new set of rules that would require operators of services like WhatsApp, Signal, Apple iMessage, and Telegram to cough up plain-text records of people's private enciphered chats to authorities that obtain a court order.
This would expand German law, which right now only allows communications to be gathered from a suspect's device itself, to also include the companies providing encrypted chat services and software. True and strong end-to-end encrypted conversations can only be decrypted by those participating in the discussion, so the proposed rules would require app makers to deliberately knacker or backdoor their code in order to comply. Those changes would be needed to allow them to collect messages passing through their systems and decrypt them on demand.
Up until now, German police have opted not to bother with trying to decrypt the contents of messages in transit, opting instead to simply seize and break into the device itself, where the messages are typically stored in plain text.
The new rules are set to be discussed by the members of the interior ministry in an upcoming June conference, and are likely to face stiff opposition not only on privacy grounds, but also in regards to the technical feasibility of the requirements.
Spokespeople for Facebook-owned WhatsApp, and Threema, makers of encrypted messaging software, were not available to comment.
The rules are the latest in an ongoing global feud between the developers of secure messaging apps and the governments. The apps, designed in part to let citizens, journalists, and activists communicate secured from the prying eyes of oppressive government regimes.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/28/german_government_encryption/
Read as well:
Germany Seeks Access to Encrypted Messages on WhatsApp, Telegram
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/germany-seeks-access-to-encrypted/
📡 @NoGoolag
https://t.me/NoGoolag/1259
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Cutting the Wire
It has recently come to the attention of the PrivacyTools team that Wire, the popular end-to-end encryption messaging platform had been sold or moved to a US company. After a week of questioning, Wire finally confirmed they had changed holding companies and would now be a US based company in a move they called “simple and pragmatic,” as they worked to expand their foothold in the enterprise market. This also came alongside the news that Wire had accepted more than $8 million in Venture Capital (VC) funding from Morpheus Ventures, as well as other investors.
Morpheus Ventures holds a portfolio including companies in healthcare, voice AI, life insurance, and retail customer data analytics: All sectors that have historically used invasive data collection methods to survive. Why would a VC with a portfolio centered on consumer data want to invest in a company whose mission claims to protect that very same information?
Earlier this year, Wire announced they had entered a partnership with FedResults, in a move that would bring Wire's secure messaging platform to US federal agencies. This raised a few eyebrows, but did not alarm the privacy community as Wire remained Swiss based and beholden to Switzerland's strict privacy laws. Today however, while much of Wire's business will continue to be run out of their Swiss offices, with new US-based ownership it is not entirely clear how much jurisdiction the United States will have over Wire data.
This is alarming because it is well known that Wire stores unencrypted metadata for every user.
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https://blog.privacytools.io/delisting-wire/
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It has recently come to the attention of the PrivacyTools team that Wire, the popular end-to-end encryption messaging platform had been sold or moved to a US company. After a week of questioning, Wire finally confirmed they had changed holding companies and would now be a US based company in a move they called “simple and pragmatic,” as they worked to expand their foothold in the enterprise market. This also came alongside the news that Wire had accepted more than $8 million in Venture Capital (VC) funding from Morpheus Ventures, as well as other investors.
Morpheus Ventures holds a portfolio including companies in healthcare, voice AI, life insurance, and retail customer data analytics: All sectors that have historically used invasive data collection methods to survive. Why would a VC with a portfolio centered on consumer data want to invest in a company whose mission claims to protect that very same information?
Earlier this year, Wire announced they had entered a partnership with FedResults, in a move that would bring Wire's secure messaging platform to US federal agencies. This raised a few eyebrows, but did not alarm the privacy community as Wire remained Swiss based and beholden to Switzerland's strict privacy laws. Today however, while much of Wire's business will continue to be run out of their Swiss offices, with new US-based ownership it is not entirely clear how much jurisdiction the United States will have over Wire data.
This is alarming because it is well known that Wire stores unencrypted metadata for every user.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://blog.privacytools.io/delisting-wire/
#privacytools #delisting #wire #FedResults #messenger #swiss #thinkabout
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