Over the past decade, Commodified communication has become the standard for billions of people. Everyday, SignaliMessage and WhatsApp holds billions of messages, photos, videos and privacy by use Encryption from start to finish By default, while Zoom, Discord and many other services all have options to allow protection. But despite the main increase of technology, Long -term threats To weaken encryption, continue piling up.
Over the past few months, there has been an increase in law enforcement efforts and the Government will effectively weaken the encryption, privacy supporters and experts said that with some emerging threats are the most blunt and aggressive people in recent memories. Officials in England, France and Sweden have made moves since the beginning of 2025 can weaken or eliminate encryption protection measures from start to finish, adding to the European Union's plan for many years to Scan private conversations And India's efforts can damage encryption.
The latest encryption attacks until intelligence agencies and law enforcement officials in the United States have recently Backtracked for many years of anti -encrypted attitude And now ask people to use encrypted media platforms whenever they can. The strong change in the attitude after the widespread violation of the Chinese hacker hacker group. The main telecommunications of the United StatesAnd it appears when the second Trump administration enhances the potential monitoring of millions of migrants without papers in the US. At the same time, the government was tense Sharing long -term, important international intelligence Agreement and partnership.
This trend is very gloomy, we see these new policies appear when the mushrooms try to weaken encryption.
The encryption from the beginning to the end is designed, so only the sender and the recipient will have access to their content, technology companies and telecommunications suppliers cannot understand what people are saying. The guarantee of privacy and security has been implemented Encrypt a goal because law enforcement and government for decadesBecause officials think the protection makes it Difficult difficult To investigate emergency threats such as child sexual abuse and terrorist.
Therefore, governments around the world often propose technical mechanisms to skip encryption and allow access to messages for investigation. However, the codes and technology have repeatedly warned, any Backdoor Created to access encrypted communication from start to finish maybe Exploited by hackers or authoritarian governments, compromising the safety of everyone. In addition, it is likely that criminals will find ways to continue using self -created encryption tools to hide their messages, which means the after -sales of the main products will succeed in destroying the protection measures for the public without eliminating the use of bad agents.
In general, recent threats for encryption have appeared in three forms, Namrata Maheshwari, encryption policy at the current Access Access International. First, there are places where governments or law enforcement agencies are asking for after -sales to be encrypted into platforms to obtain Islam's legitimate access to content. At the end of February, for example, Apple drag Its encrypted iCloud backup system is called Advanced data protectionFrom use in England after the lawmakers of the country reported Fighting Cupertino company with a secret order requires Apple to provide access to encrypted files. To do so, Apple will have to create a rear. Order, criticized by the Trump administration, was established as challenging in one Secret trial on March 14.