Was dem Deutschen sein Kinderporno, ist dem Franzmann die Drogen
Aktuelles von der Kommunikations-Verschlüsselung.
Computerweekly: France pushes for law enforcement access to Signal, WhatsApp and encrypted email
Bei uns müssen die Kinderpornos als Ausrede herhalten, in Frankreich sind es die Drogen:
France is proposing a law to require encrypted messaging applications, including Signal and WhatsApp, and encrypted email services such as Proton Mail to provide law enforcement with decrypted data on request.
An amendment to France’s proposed “Narcotraffic” bill, which is passing through the National Assembly in the French Parliament, will require tech companies to hand over decrypted chat messages of suspected criminals within 72 hours.
The law, which aims to provide French law enforcement with stronger powers to combat drug trafficking, has raised concerns among tech companies and civil society groups that it will lead to the creation of “backdoors” in encrypted services that will be exploited by cyber criminals and hostile nation-states.
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France has played a key role in hacking dedicated encrypted messaging services used by drug traffickers, including EncroChat, Sky ECC and Anom, resulting in the arrests of thousands of people worldwide suspected of drugs trafficking and money laundering.
But opponents of the French law argue that breaking an encryption application that is allegedly designed for use by criminals is very different from breaking the encryption of chat apps, such as WhatsApp and Signal, and encrypted emails used by billions of people for non-criminal communications.
Das wird sicher lustig.
Meine Dissertation zu dem Thema haben sie zwar damals abgelehnt, aber ich habe nicht nur die meistgelesene Informatikdissertation Deutschlands, ich habe eine der wenigen, die überhaupt gelesen wurden, denn Informatikdissertationen werden ja meist nicht mal von den Prüfern gelesen. Nun kann ich mich damit trösten, dass ich eine Dissertation geschrieben habe, die auch nach 30 Jahren noch topaktuell ist – aktueller wohl noch als damals.
Gut, dass ich die aufgehoben habe. Vielleicht habe ich mit der noch eine Menge Spaß.
French law in conflict with EU and German privacy laws
Tuta Mail has warned that if the proposals are passed, it would put France in conflict with European Union laws, and German IT security laws, including the IT Security Act and Germany’s Telecommunications Act (TKG) which require companies to secure their customer’s data.
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La Quadrature du Net, a non-profit organisation that defends people’s rights and freedoms on the net, has urged politicians to reject the amendment when it is discussed in the National Assembly in March.
The group said in a blog post in January that civil society groups, cryptography experts and the French Cyber Security Agency ANSSI, have been warning for years that accessing encrypted communications is not only technically impossible but contravenes digital security requirements.
“End-to-end encryption is designed so that companies themselves do not have access to messages. Introducing access (a backdoor) would weaken the level of protection of all communications and this is not provided for anywhere in the world,” it said.