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This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for June 4th 2018 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: Telegram Messenger in Russia, Amazon’s Facial Recognition Technology and Digital License Plates.
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The Russian communications agency has given an ultimatum to Apple if they do not remove Telegram, which is a secure messaging app, from the Apple App Store in Russia. Several months ago the Russian government banned the Telegram app because Telegram refused to give them the private encryption keys to access messages being sent through the app. Russia claims that terrorists are using the Telegram app and are demanding what is essentially backdoor access to chats for government investigations and surveillance. Apple now has a month to comply with this request or face regulatory action from the Russian government. It’s also being reported that the same request also went out to Google to ban Telegram from the Google Play app store as well. Now despite this request Telegram is still being actively used by Russian citizens through the use of VPN’s which allow circumvention of any blocking of Telegram servers that the Russian government is actively doing.
This news reminds me of the controversy back in 2016 here in the US regarding the iPhone of the San Bernardino shooter in which the FBI asked Apple to unlock the shooter’s iPhone for their investigation. Like the Telegram situation it’s a very dangerous proposal when governments begin asking for companies to install backdoors or to do things that circumvent built in security and privacy controls. This is a debate that will be continuing for sure, in the meantime it’s important that we all support the need to protect our own privacy by keeping encryption and other security technologies built into the devices and apps that we use.
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