I read yesterday that David Cameron wants to block IM services
such as Whatsapp, Snapchat and Imessage due
to the fact that they use encrypted software so that they cannot be interfered without
by outside entities such as the government, even with a warrant. The companies of
these IM services want to remain true to the values of their privacy agreement,
therefore government agencies and such cannot snoop on your conversations. Not that
this is really a bad thing, but it does leave a crack in the security of our
countries. It seems that terrorist groups are using these services to organize their
attacks and with two attacks very recently in Australia and France maybe by
allowing government agencies the ability to snoop in on these services it could
have saved lives, anything that can potentially save lives is a good idea to
me, let me know what you think about this and drop me a comment.
It come back to the questions of how much we value freedom of speech and who should have access to our data - definitely a problem given the use made of IT by criminals etc
ReplyDeleteIts a bit of a touchy subject, national safety or privacy? would it take another massive event like 9/11 before we change our minds? ill have to cut this comment short because I could write about Topics like this till the cows come home
DeleteI think it is a good idea for the government to try everything possible to protect it people but by blocking stuff like that, will not stop a determined terrorist from carrying out an attack it will just lead to the terrorist making sure they have other ways to talk to one another, so the only people it will effect will be everyday people
ReplyDeleteyou are completely correct, and if the government announces that it will be snooping in on these apps to catch terrorists, chances are that they will only catch the "wannabe" terrorists and not the larger organizations the could use a source of intelligence.
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