The U.S. National Security Council has reportedly discussed prohibiting encrypted messaging technologies that prevent law enforcement from accessing content when required for security reasons—a red line that must not be crossed in the view of many users and providers.
End-to-end encrypted messaging is a major issue for law enforcement—as the world shifts from easy to crack cellular SMS messaging to various flavors of IP messaging, such as WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal and Wickr, governments are exploring their options. The challenge is that such services are provided by technology companies, mostly based in the U.S., making them to a large extent out of reach from lawmakers elsewhere.
"Technology is moving fast, and privacy needs to move with it," Joel Wallenstrom—the CEO of uber-secure messaging platform Wickr—told me."These are all completely legitimate, understandable even predictable concerns coming from law enforcement and elsewhere." The challenge for governments, the U.S. included, is that the privacy of messaging has become a central theme in the ongoing debate around privacy, data security and information integrity. People around the world are shifting from public social media posting to closed groups, and messaging platforms have been a major driver of that. Even Facebook has put messaging security and privacy at the center of its new strategy.Wallenstrom told me, speaking before the NSC news broke.
And DHS can see both sides of the debate even within itself. "The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency know the importance of encrypting sensitive data, especially in critical infrastructure operations, but ICE and the Secret Service regularly run into encryption roadblocks during their investigations."
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