UK targets WhatsApp encryption after London attack

The British government has said that its security services must have access to encrypted messaging applications such as WhatsApp, as it revealed that the service was used by the man behind the parliament attack.

Khalid Masood, the 52-year-old Briton who killed four people in a rampage in Westminster on Wednesday before being shot dead, reportedly used the Facebook-owned service moments before the assault.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd told Sky News it was “completely unacceptable” that police and security services had not been able to crack the heavily encrypted service.

“You can’t have a situation where you have terrorists talking to each other -- where this terrorist sent a WhatsApp message -- and it can’t be accessed,” she said.View more:-Bulk Sms Service provider

Police said Saturday that they still did not know why Masood, a Muslim convert with a violent criminal past, carried out the attack and that he probably acted alone, despite a claim of responsibility by the Islamic State group.

Source:-Hindustantimes

The Benevolent Dictatorship of Mark Zuckerberg

New Delhi - Indians love Facebook but the social networking giant is increasingly playing nanny, taking down posts that don�t meet its community standards, a move that has users and activists worried.

India, which has 150 million Facebook users, the second highest in the world after the US, had 30,126 posts taken down in 2015, the company�s transparency report shows. The US reported the most takedowns, followed by France, with India coming in third.

The censorship continues.

Zargar Yasir, a 23-year-old Srinagar-based security analyst, last week found his Facebook account blocked. He had reposted a 2015 blog he wrote about Burhan Wani, a Hizbul Mujahideen commander who was killed in a gunfight on July 8.

Yasir wrote the blog for The Nation, a popular Pakistani paper. It can still be found on The Nation Facebook page and is accessible in India as well.

“Even people within Kashmir have differing views on Wani. Facebook has made me a mute spectator in my own country,” he complained. Wani�s death has triggered a wave of unrest in the Valley that has left 44 people dead.

After HT raised Yasir's concerns with Facebook, a representative said, “From time to time we make a mistake which is what happened here.” At the time of the publication of this story, Yasir's account was still blocked. The representative spoke didn�t wish to be identified.

“The right to express oneself is guaranteed to a citizen not by Facebook but by the Indian constitution,” cyber law expert Pavan Duggal said.
Source:-hindustantimes
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