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"To provide and maintain the capability to disclose, where practicable, the communications, equipment data and other information in an intelligible form to stan
by infinity0 9y ago
"To provide and maintain the capability to disclose, where practicable, the communications,
equipment data and other information in an intelligible form to standards specified in the notice
and to remove electronic protection applied by or on behalf of the telecommunications operator to
those communications, equipment data or other information, or to permit the person to whom the
warrant is addressed to remove such electronic protection."
Could this be interpreted, legally, to exempt end-to-end encryption?
- When implemented properly (i.e. with proper key verification UIs) it should not be "practicable" for communications operators to force disclosure of the contents of users' communications.
- End-to-end encryption is not "applied by [..] the operator" but rather applied by the users' device.
- rocqua 9y agoThey might argue that it is 'practicable' to force-push a software version of whatsapp that also sends the messages to the government. Alternatively, they could argue that since e2e services can't provide this backdoor, they aren't legal.
- zzzcpan 9y agoNot in any useful way. End-to-end encryption is a joke if you use a client controlled by a corporation. And a corporation can always implement a backdoor without you knowing to help the state.