Will Twitter build in backdoors for DHS snooping?
Sam
from Scranton, United States of America
What do you think?
In October 1994, Congress took action to protect public safety and ensure national security by enacting the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (CALEA), Pub. L. No. 103-414, 108 Stat. 4279. The law further defines the existing statutory obligation of telecommunications carriers to assist law enforcement in executing electronic surveillance pursuant to court order or other lawful authorization. The objective of CALEA implementation is to preserve law enforcement’s ability to conduct lawfully-authorized electronic surveillance while preserving public safety, the public’s right to privacy, and the telecommunications industry’s competitiveness.
Whole point of encryption is to avoid snooping. What’s the point if there are backdoors ?!
Twitter is not a telecommunications company. The purpose of these systems is to provide a filter between you and your wireless provider in order to protect your communication. Highly unlikely that Verizon, T-Mobile, etc are interested in “going the extra mile”, decrypting your data for the fed gov’t, all so some operative in a office somewhere in dc can read “yo g, I got that 1/8th you asked for, meet me on Figueroa @ taco bell”. However, if you are a terrorist and are communicating with this encryption to people in places like iran (no offense) they probably have some giant computer that is capable in the blink of an eye in decoding any encryption the public has available to them. If you are worried fret more over how much of your information is fed through google……