United Nations supports Apple's Encryption Fight

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TAG Encryption, San Bernardino Shooting, Apple, FBI, United Nations
Apple-FBI Case May Unlock Human Rights Pandora's Box: UN Reminds US Authorities To Proceed With Great Caution

By Quinten Plummer, Tech Times | March 5, 8:53 PM

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The UN warned the U.S. government of red line. The organization's Human Rights High Commissioner said if that line is crossed in coercing Apple to build a backdoor into iOS, the rest of the world could


Al-Hussein reasons that the software backdoor not only sets a precedence for oppressive regimes around the world, but it also offers them the means for prying into the personal information of their citizens. It could be "a gift to authoritarian regimes" and hackers alike, adds Al-Hussein.

 

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Encryption protects activists, political dissidents, human rights defenders, journalists and whistle blowers around the globe from persecution, according to the high commissioner.

"There is, unfortunately, no shortage of security forces around the world who will take advantage of the ability to break into people's phones if they can," he says. "And there is no shortage of criminals intent on committing economic crimes by accessing other people's data."

 

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Here's How Apple Plans to Beat the FBI
Among other things, Apple alleges that the FBI violates its First Amendment rights by compelling company engineers to write code.

Andrea Castillo | March 8, 2016

downloadsource.fr/FlickrThe tech-policy community is still buzzing about a recent court ordercompelling Apple to craft a technical tool that would allow FBI investigators to bypass security measures on the iPhone used by San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook.

 

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Obama not onboard to hack terrorists' encryption...

Exclusive: White House declines to support encryption legislation - sources
Wed Apr 6, 2016 | WASHINGTON - The White House is declining to offer public support for draft legislation that would empower judges to require technology companies such as Apple Inc to help law enforcement crack encrypted data, sources familiar with the discussions said.

The decision all but assures that the years-long political impasse over encryption will continue even in the wake of the high-profile effort by the Department of Justice to force Apple to break into an iPhone used by a gunman in last December's shootings in San Bernardino, California. President Obama suggested in remarks last month that he had come around to the view that law enforcement agencies needed to have a way to gain access to encrypted information on smartphones. But the administration remains deeply divided on the issue, the sources said.

A worker checks an iPhone in a repair store in New York​

The draft legislation from Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein, the Republican chair and top Democrat respectively of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is expected to be introduced as soon as this week. The bill gives federal judges broad authority to order tech companies to help the government but does not spell out what companies might have to do or the circumstances under which they could be ordered to help, according to sources familiar with the text. It also does not create specific penalties for noncompliance. Although the White House has reviewed the text and offered feedback, it is expected to provide minimal public input, if any, the sources said.

Its stance is partly a reflection of a political calculus that any encryption bill would be controversial and is unlikely to go far in a gridlocked Congress during an election year, sources said. A White House spokesman declined to comment on the pending legislation, but referred to White House press secretary Josh Earnest's statements on encryption legislation. Last month Earnest said the administration is "skeptical" of lawmakers' ability to resolve the encryption debate given their difficulty in tackling "simple things." Tech companies and civil liberties advocates have opposed encryption legislation, arguing that mandating law enforcement access to tech products will undermine security for everyone. Several lawmakers, including U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, a Democrat, have vowed to oppose any attempt to limit encryption protections in U.S. technology products.

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TAG Encryption, San Bernardino Shooting, Apple, FBI, United Nations
Apple-FBI Case May Unlock Human Rights Pandora's Box: UN Reminds US Authorities To Proceed With Great Caution

By Quinten Plummer, Tech Times | March 5, 8:53 PM

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The UN warned the U.S. government of red line. The organization's Human Rights High Commissioner said if that line is crossed in coercing Apple to build a backdoor into iOS, the rest of the world could


Al-Hussein reasons that the software backdoor not only sets a precedence for oppressive regimes around the world, but it also offers them the means for prying into the personal information of their citizens. It could be "a gift to authoritarian regimes" and hackers alike, adds Al-Hussein.

Seeing as the US supports oppressive regimes, I doubt the US govt will bother listening.

 

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TAG Encryption, San Bernardino Shooting, Apple, FBI, United Nations
Apple-FBI Case May Unlock Human Rights Pandora's Box: UN Reminds US Authorities To Proceed With Great Caution

By Quinten Plummer, Tech Times | March 5, 8:53 PM

Like Follow Share Tweet Reddit 6 Comments Subscribe

The UN warned the U.S. government of red line. The organization's Human Rights High Commissioner said if that line is crossed in coercing Apple to build a backdoor into iOS, the rest of the world could


Al-Hussein reasons that the software backdoor not only sets a precedence for oppressive regimes around the world, but it also offers them the means for prying into the personal information of their citizens. It could be "a gift to authoritarian regimes" and hackers alike, adds Al-Hussein.

Seeing as the US supports oppressive regimes, I doubt the US govt will bother listening.

Yes, indeed.

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Encryption givin' jihadis the upper hand...

UN Experts: Extremists Foiling Governments with Encryption
Aug 18, 2016 — Increasing numbers of foreign fighters for the Islamic State group and al-Qaida are returning home, potentially to carry out attacks, and are using the "dark web" or encrypted messaging that the most sophisticated intelligence agencies can't penetrate, U.N. experts said in a report circulated Wednesday.

The experts monitoring sanctions against the extremist groups said governments highlighted the challenge to national security from the communication methods being used by these "foreign terrorist fighters" and people being radicalized at home who need to be monitored and investigated. They said the rise in the use of the "dark web" — a collection of thousands of websites which use tools to maintain anonymity — and especially encrypted messaging "has closed off the ability of even the most sophisticated agencies to penetrate huge quantities of messages." The result, the experts said, is that governments are "potentially losing much of their previous technological advantage over terror groups." Recruiters for the Islamic State group, once they engage potential fighters, also swiftly move them to "closed forums" and guide them toward encrypted messaging systems, the experts said.

The expert panel's report to the Security Council said the threat from al-Qaida, the Islamic State, and their associates "is serious and diversifying," despite military setbacks for Islamic State fighters in Iraq, Syria Afghanistan and Libya. The Islamic State "demonstrated its ability to conduct complex, multi-stage attacks outside the conflict zone" while at the same time the role of its affiliates in the wider region was elevated, the panel said. The near-simultaneous attacks conducted by Islamic State operatives in Paris in November 2015 and Brussels in March generated an overwhelming flow of information to command centers which governments described as a deliberate tactic by the extremist group "to make it more difficult to mount coordinated and targeted responses to the most dangerous continuing threats," the experts said.

Al-Qaida and its affiliates also maintained their position in various regions "and also demonstrated an ability to successfully plan and execute significant attacks," the panel said. The experts said governments estimate that the Islamic State has up to 30,000 fighters in Syria and Iraq. Significant numbers of IS fighters have been killed as a result of military attacks and the rate of fighters leaving the extremist group has increased, but the panel said governments report that this trend is partially offset by the continued flow of new fighters into Syria and Iraq and by forced recruitment among tribes and the use of child soldiers since 2014. The panel said the Islamic State group's financial situation has deteriorated since last July, with oil production declining by between 30 and 50 percent as a result of air strike targeting oil infrastructure. "Consequently oil revenue has fallen by tens of millions of dollars per month," it said.

The group's financial woes have also led to salary cuts for fighters, the panel said, but the Islamic State continues to earn significant revenue from taxation and extortion, the panel said. According to governments, IS may earn as much as $30 million a month from these methods which include business taxes, fees for electricity and water, rent for seized real estate and customs duties and passage fees. In a sign of desperation, the panel said that in February IS started to tax the most impoverished civilians in areas under its control who had previously been exempt.

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Encryption givin' jihadis the upper hand...

UN Experts: Extremists Foiling Governments with Encryption
Aug 18, 2016 — Increasing numbers of foreign fighters for the Islamic State group and al-Qaida are returning home, potentially to carry out attacks, and are using the "dark web" or encrypted messaging that the most sophisticated intelligence agencies can't penetrate, U.N. experts said in a report circulated Wednesday.

The experts monitoring sanctions against the extremist groups said governments highlighted the challenge to national security from the communication methods being used by these "foreign terrorist fighters" and people being radicalized at home who need to be monitored and investigated. They said the rise in the use of the "dark web" — a collection of thousands of websites which use tools to maintain anonymity — and especially encrypted messaging "has closed off the ability of even the most sophisticated agencies to penetrate huge quantities of messages." The result, the experts said, is that governments are "potentially losing much of their previous technological advantage over terror groups." Recruiters for the Islamic State group, once they engage potential fighters, also swiftly move them to "closed forums" and guide them toward encrypted messaging systems, the experts said.

The expert panel's report to the Security Council said the threat from al-Qaida, the Islamic State, and their associates "is serious and diversifying," despite military setbacks for Islamic State fighters in Iraq, Syria Afghanistan and Libya. The Islamic State "demonstrated its ability to conduct complex, multi-stage attacks outside the conflict zone" while at the same time the role of its affiliates in the wider region was elevated, the panel said. The near-simultaneous attacks conducted by Islamic State operatives in Paris in November 2015 and Brussels in March generated an overwhelming flow of information to command centers which governments described as a deliberate tactic by the extremist group "to make it more difficult to mount coordinated and targeted responses to the most dangerous continuing threats," the experts said.

Al-Qaida and its affiliates also maintained their position in various regions "and also demonstrated an ability to successfully plan and execute significant attacks," the panel said. The experts said governments estimate that the Islamic State has up to 30,000 fighters in Syria and Iraq. Significant numbers of IS fighters have been killed as a result of military attacks and the rate of fighters leaving the extremist group has increased, but the panel said governments report that this trend is partially offset by the continued flow of new fighters into Syria and Iraq and by forced recruitment among tribes and the use of child soldiers since 2014. The panel said the Islamic State group's financial situation has deteriorated since last July, with oil production declining by between 30 and 50 percent as a result of air strike targeting oil infrastructure. "Consequently oil revenue has fallen by tens of millions of dollars per month," it said.

The group's financial woes have also led to salary cuts for fighters, the panel said, but the Islamic State continues to earn significant revenue from taxation and extortion, the panel said. According to governments, IS may earn as much as $30 million a month from these methods which include business taxes, fees for electricity and water, rent for seized real estate and customs duties and passage fees. In a sign of desperation, the panel said that in February IS started to tax the most impoverished civilians in areas under its control who had previously been exempt.

UN Experts: Extremists Foiling Governments with Encryption | Military.com

There is a fantastically easy way to prevent that from happenning

Tell the sons-of-bitches- in congress to get fuck out of Syria and the middle east - Let Israel defend itself the best way they can. We invaded Iraq and wasted 30 billion dollars and 4200 Americans died helping them.

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