Obama supports the British prime minister: "black moves" in the encryption needed

Last week I wrote plans to British Prime Minister Cameron to ban encryption, no "black moves" that could benefit from special services . And now President Obama has officially announced that it adheres to the same position. Speaking about the need to improve cyber security of the country, he said: "If we find evidence of a terrorist conspiracy, and can not, despite the presence of a phone number, address, social networks, or in an email, enter [in correspondence and conversations] ... This is a problem ". He also added that he believes in patriotism workers in Silicon Valley and that they will meet these requirements by the government and intelligence services. About this writes Wall Street Journal .

In the US intelligence agencies have long been engaged in surveillance and wiretapping of calls, e-mail and communication in social networks, with orders without them. However, in the post-snoudenovskuyu era when the real extent of such wiretaps floated to the surface, when the producers of smartphones and operatsionok them inserted protection and encryption running by default, the "golden age" of special services suddenly ended. Obama believes that there should be a method in which the communication will be kept private, but at the same time the agency with a three-letter names would be a way to listen to all communication by the court. Interestingly, the Clinton administration tried to push through a similar initiative in the '90s, demanding embedded in encrypting units ability to decrypt, but was defeated.

Security experts have rightly noted that in the presence of a master key system security is vulnerable - any hacker who stole the key can easily crack and system. Christopher Soghoyan, an engineer from the American Civil Liberties Union, wonders how it is possible in one speech at a time to talk about cyber security and encryption to complain about.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/244440/