{"id":9695,"date":"2019-10-04T08:55:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T22:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=9695"},"modified":"2019-10-04T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T22:55:13","slug":"the-us-uk-australian-governments-want-facebook-to-stop-rolling-out-e2e-encryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/the-us-uk-australian-governments-want-facebook-to-stop-rolling-out-e2e-encryption\/","title":{"rendered":"The US, UK &#038; Australian governments want Facebook to stop rolling out e2e encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/10\/03\/facebook-is-being-leant-on-by-us-uk-australia-to-ditch-its-end-to-end-encryption-expansion-plan\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/27124222\/whatsappcomplete2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. Attorney General William Barr, acting U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel and Australia\u2019s minister for home affairs, Peter Dutton, have co-signed an open letter to Facebook calling on the company to halt its plan to roll out e2e encryption across its suite of messaging products<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Woah, hang on here am I about to defend Facebook?????<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand why these governments need them to leave things wide open if <a href=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/aussie-government-plays-tip-of-the-spear-in-bid-for-five-eyes-encryption-backdoor\/\">we can break the laws of mathematics like ex-PM Malcolm Turnbull suggested<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>What was the line again?<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, so in other words, they want that backdoor in if end-to-end encryption continues to roll out because all their intercepts likely can&#8217;t read jack shit.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/10\/03\/facebook-is-being-leant-on-by-us-uk-australia-to-ditch-its-end-to-end-encryption-expansion-plan\/\">Facebook is being leaned on by US, UK, Australia to ditch its end-to-end encryption expansion plan | TechCrunch<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Attorney General William Barr, acting U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[94,129,482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9697,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions\/9697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}