Google, Facebook, Snapchat, WhatsApp. These services will become more secure
The major US technology companies are working to expand the data protection of its users, advances on Monday the newspaper The Guardian . New projects of Google, Facebook and Snapchat have potential, writes the British newspaper, to come to create situations as controversial as it currently opposes Apple to the US government about the encryption smartphone a terrorist.
Within a few weeks, Facebook, holder of the application WhatsApp instant messaging, you must expand your service to go to encrypt outgoing calls through the application. The service, with about one billion users per month worldwide, already has advanced encryption capabilities for text messages, and the Guardian advances that Facebook considers begin to increase security of messages sent via the Facebook Messenger.
Another popular messaging service, Snapchat technology that lets you send ephemeral messages that disappear a few seconds after being opened, is also working on a system to make your more messages difficult, if not impossible, to be seen by third parties, including the company itself. According to the Guardian , Google continues to work an encryption service for email and trying to adapt this encryption technology for other uses.
According to the British newspaper, the encryption expansion projects started even before Apple’s battle with the uS government, asking that Apple create a way to bypass the most advanced security features in the iPhone so that you can access data from one of the terrorists responsible for the attack in San Bernardino, Calif.
Business support Apple against the US government
Many technology companies, the Facebook to Microsoft, they have expressed support for Apple’s position, which holds that create a way to circumvent encryption iPhone for this case in particular paves the way for this method to be used in other situations in the future.
Apple was subject to a court order to unlock the iPhone terrorist San Bernardino, but refused to do so. This iPhone has active functionality of Apple that makes, when trying a limited number of wrong unlock codes, the phone is blocked permanently and can even erase all this information. US authorities claim that Apple create a way to work around this security mechanism, allowing researchers to experience an unlimited number of codes to get access to your smartphone. But Apple believes that the court order was issued is unconstitutional and appealed the decision of the federal judge.
For the founder of WhatsApp, Jan Koum, support for Apple CEO Tim Cook, has been unconditional and based on strong personal convictions. Koum was born in Ukraine in the Soviet era and is very concerned about privacy issues against government spying. “Our freedom is at risk,” Koum wrote on Facebook in support of Cook. Koum rejects that WhatsApp encryption features are a special feature application -. To the founder, users should be able to assume that your data is protected
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