US FBI Drops FHOTI Bomb on Interpol to Ban E2E Crypto ASAP

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/think-of-the-children-fbi-sought-interpol-statement-against-end-to-end-crypto/
https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-interpol-plans-condemn-encryption-203218710.html
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/the-broken-record-why-barrs-call-against-end-to-end-encryption-is-nuts/

Justice Department officials have long pushed for some sort of
backdoor to permit warranted surveillance and searches of encrypted
communications. Recently, that push has been taken international
with Attorney General William Barr and his counterparts from the
United Kingdom and Australia making an open plea to Facebook to
delay plans to use end-to-end encryption across all the company's
messaging tools.

Now, the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigations
are attempting to get an even larger international consensus on
banning end-to-end encryption by way of a draft resolution authored
by officials at the FBI for the International Criminal Police
Organization's 37th Meeting of the INTERPOL Specialists Group on
Crimes against Children. The event took place from November 12 to
November 15 at the INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon, France.

A draft of the resolution viewed by Ars Technica stated that INTERPOL
would "strongly urge providers of technology services to allow for
lawful access to encrypted data enabled or facilitated by their
systems" in the interest of fighting child sexual exploitation.
Currently, it is not clear whether Interpol will issue a statement.

The draft resolution went on to lay responsibility for child
exploitation upon the tech industry:

"The current path towards default end-to-end encryption, with no
provision for lawful access, does not allow for the protection of
the world's children from sexual exploitation. Technology providers
must act and design their services in a way that protects user
privacy, on the one hand, while providing user safety, on the other
hand. Failure to allow for Lawful Access on their platforms and
products, provides a safe haven to offenders utilizing these to
sexually exploit children, and inhibits our global law enforcement
efforts to protect children."

In a statement that flies in the face of the consensus of cryptographers
and other technical experts, the draft resolution asserted that
"technologists agree" that designing systems to "[allow] for lawful
access to data, while maintaining customer privacy…can be implemented
in a way that would enhance privacy while maintaining strong cyber
security."