gfxgfx
 
Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
 
gfx gfx
gfx
76793 Posts in 13502 Topics by 1651 Members - Latest Member: Arnold99 October 12, 2024, 09:33:05 am
*
gfx*gfx
gfx
WinMX World :: Forum  |  Discussion  |  WinMx World News  |  Encrypted WhatsApp voice calls frustrate new court-ordered wiretap
gfx
gfxgfx
 

Author Topic: Encrypted WhatsApp voice calls frustrate new court-ordered wiretap  (Read 1040 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

The Department of Justice has opened another legal front in the ongoing war over easy-to-use strong encryption.

According to a Saturday report in The New York Times, prosecutors have gone head-to-head with WhatsApp, the messaging app owned by Facebook. Citing anonymous sources, the Times reported that "as recently as this past week," federal officials have been "discussing how to proceed in a continuing criminal investigation in which a federal judge had approved a wiretap, but investigators were stymied by WhatsApp’s encryption."

The case, which apparently does not involve terrorism, remains under seal.

The government could pursue a strategy similar to the one it has employed in the ongoing terrorism investigation in San Bernardino, in which it was granted a court order that would compel Apple to create new software to defeat the encryption on a seized iPhone. Apple has vowed both publicly and in court papers to fight that order as intensely as possible, citing security concerns.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/encrypted-whatsapp-voice-calls-frustrate-new-court-ordered-wiretap/

WinMX World :: Forum  |  Discussion  |  WinMx World News  |  Encrypted WhatsApp voice calls frustrate new court-ordered wiretap
 

gfxgfx
gfx
©2005-2024 WinMXWorld.com. All Rights Reserved.
SMF 2.0.19 | SMF © 2021, Simple Machines | Terms and Policies
Page created in 0.011 seconds with 23 queries.
Helios Multi © Bloc
gfx
Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!