The Dutch criminal investigation and intelligence services do their best to make the encryption of messaging services like WhatsApp and Telegram to get around.
Encryption WhatsApp cracking
That says the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV) Dick Schoof in an interview with The Telegraph. Moved want to the messages of terrorists intercept, ” he says. "If terrorists are using this kind of encrypted networks to communicate, we want that break." The break is difficult, but Slipped the 'do not say that it fails'.
The Coordinator press on the heart that the security services have no interest in 'messages from you and me'. According to Schoof, is it really necessary for these services to gain access to encrypted messaging apps, and there is good supervision that there is no abuse. "The Internet is now a 'black box.' The services are there to access."
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Dick Schoof says there is still danger of terror threatens. "With the AIVD, we noticed that it IS a planning unit that is still effective and is capable of attacks in Europe to prepare and to perform." By terrorists via messaging services to detect, they may be stopped, and to accomplices lead.
Which means the services exactly to wager a cracking force, is unclear. Work In Germany secret services to circumvention of encrypted messaging apps, this is a budget of 150 million euro was allocated.
Apple versus the FBI
There is this year a lot of to do to the encryption of devices and apps, and the circumvention thereof. At the beginning of this year wanted the FBI that Apple would help with the opening of an iPhone 5C. This was the phone of a terrorist who at the end of 2015 a bloodbath havoc in a care center. Apple did not go with the request of the FBI agreement. According to Tim Cook would be such a crack in the system not only ensure that the FBI in your phone can be, but that can also be found by criminals.
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