Five Eyes Bent On Killing Crypto

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/australia-to-target-encrypted-messaging-apps-at-upcoming-security-meeting/
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/five-eyes-stress-sharing-information-to-battle-relentless-terrorist-plots/article35486286/
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/06/five-eyes-unlimited

This week, the political heads of the intelligence services of Canada,
New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States (the
"Five Eyes" alliance) met in Ottawa.  The Australian delegation
entered the meeting saying publicly that they intended to "thwart the
encryption of terrorist messaging." The final communiqué states more
diplomatically that "Ministers and Attorneys General [...] noted that
encryption can severely undermine public safety efforts by impeding
lawful access to the content of communications during investigations
into serious crimes, including terrorism. To address these issues, we
committed to develop our engagement with communications and technology
companies to explore shared solutions."

What might their plan be? Is this yet another attempt to ban
encryption? A combined effort to compel ISPs and Internet companies to
weaken their secure products? At least one leader of a Five Eyes
nation has been talking recently about increasing international
engagement with technology companies — with a list of laws in her back
pocket that are already capable of subverting encryption, and the
entire basis of user trust in the Internet.

Exporting Britain's Surveillance Regime

Before she was elevated to the role of Prime Minister by the fallout
from Brexit, Theresa May was the author of the UK's Investigatory
Powers bill, which spelled out the UK's plans for mass surveillance in
a post-Snowden world..........cont.....