Comment: It’s time for governments to learn how end-to-end encryption works<div class="feat-image">
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<p>There’s an emerging health crisis at the moment, besides <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/coronavirus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">coronavirus[/url]: the head injuries caused by techies banging their heads on their desks at each piece of evidence that governments don’t understand how end-to-end encryption works.</p>
<p>The latest example of this, reported in <a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/25/mi5-chief-asks-tech-firms-for-exceptional-access-to-encrypted-messages" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the
Guardian[/url], was the head of Britain’s domestic counterintelligence and <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/security/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">security[/url] agency, MI5, calling<span style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif"> on tech companies like Apple and Facebook to continue to offer end-to-end encryption, but to provide MI5 access “on an exceptional basis”… </span></p>
<p> <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2020/02/28/how-end-to-end-encryption-works/#more-634277" class="more-link">more…[/url]</p>
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