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Re: [Cryptography] Crypto being blamed in the London riots.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick)
Tue Aug 9 17:08:51 2011
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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 21:59:42 +0100
From: Nick <cryptography-list@njw.me.uk>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
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> Quoting from the New York Times:
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> David Lammy, Britain's intellectual property minister, also called
> for a suspension of Blackberry's encrypted instant message service.
> Many rioters, exploiting that service, had been able to organize mobs
> and outrun the police, who were ill-equipped to monitor it.
IIRC this came up last year when a Middle Eastern country (I forget=20
which) were threatening to not let RIM operate unless they could=20
intercept blackberry messages.
However, as was pointed out then, apparently the encryption is to &=20
=66rom RIM's servers, not the recipient. So RIM have access to all the=20
'secret' messages. I expect GCHQ & the Met will make sure said=20
systems are patched in to their surveillance programme in no time.
Unfortunately the present climate in England is such that I can't=20
imagine such measures being anything but lauded.
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