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发帖数: 3433 | 1 LONDON — A senior British lawmaker has blasted messaging platforms like
WhatsApp for using end-to-end encryption, which stops security services
monitoring messages.
It comes as it emerges the London terror attacker Khalid Masood used the
messaging service moments before he killed an American tourist, a police
officer and two others outside the U.K. Parliament.
British Home Secretary Amber Rudd told the BBC it was "completely
unacceptable" for messaging services to encrypt communication.
"We need to make sure that organizations like WhatsApp, and there are plenty
of others like that, don't provide a secret place for terrorists to
communicate with each other," she said.
Rudd also urged technology firms to do a better job preventing the
publication of material that promotes extremism.
Police have said they are currently investigating the London attacker's path
to radicalization and whether he was in contact with other terrorists
before the assault.
It follows an ongoing battle between technology giant Apple and the FBI in
the U.S. over access to locked devices.
The dispute broke out after Apple refused to help the FBI unlock the phone
of San Bernadino mass shooter Syed Farook.
The government eventually used a software tool costing $1 million to get
into Farook's phone.
Apple has consistently said it would be wrong for them to allow the
government to access iPhones so they could decrypt data. |
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