It's
not so surprising that the United Kingdom would say their Investigatory Powers
Bill is timely enough for the situation. After extremists attacked Paris and
several other heavily-populated cities in other countries, UK tories would say
"we told you so" and would push through with their plans to snoop
inside the conversations of millions of Britons nationwide.
This
is all in an attempt to thwart terrorist communications, which make use of
similar networks such as the Internet.
But
Internet and tech companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook and
others, said the plan would be a big failure because the technology itself
locks out the developers from accessing sensitive information stored in their
systems.
A Single Backdoor is a
Backdoor For Anyone
According
to Apple CEO Tim Cook, a single backdoor they create in their Message App and
it would be anyone's backdoor to access another person's private files. The
Message App currently has no backdoor and relies on end-to-end encryption
wherein the receiver of the message is the only one to read the message. Not
even their servers can translate the data.
The
bad news is that if Internet and tech companies feel the pressure to create
these new technologies, they may end up competing in security against
government-sanctioned hackers employed in the ranks to enforce the law in full,
if necessary.
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