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France Says Fight Against Messaging Encryption Needs Worldwide Initiative (reuters.com)

An anonymous reader shares a Reuters report: Messaging encryption, widely used by Islamist extremists to plan attacks, needs to be fought at international level, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Thursday, and he wants Germany to help him promote a global initiative. He meets his German counterpart, Thomas de Maiziere, on Aug. 23 in Paris and they will discuss a European initiative with a view to launching an international action plan, Cazeneuve said. French intelligence services are struggling to intercept messages from Islamist extremists who increasingly switch from mainstream social media to encrypted messaging services, with Islamic State being a big user of such apps, including Telegram. "Many messages relating to the execution of terror attacks are sent using encryption; it is a central issue in the fight against terrorism," Cazeneuve told reporters after a government meeting on security. "France will make proposals. I have sent a number of them to my Germany colleague," he said.

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  1. Re:Islam is the problem, not encryption by geek · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How is self defense genocide?

    I see nothing in your post pertaining to self defense. All you did was to state your support for mass killing, and then in your reply to me, you literally doubled down.

    They have clearly stated they wish to irradicate western civilization.

    Well yes, this is to be expected from terrorist fucktards, not from supposedly college-educated middle aged white males such as yourself.

    There is simply no rational basis to allow them to do so.

    Just as there's no rational basis to perform even worse atrocities as a preventative measure.

    but fuckwits like you seem hell bent on importing them into every civilized country on Earth

    And now you've jumped to straight assumptions. Truth be told, I'm relatively agnostic on immigration in general (which to you probably makes me just as bad as who you thought I was, correct?)

    Truth be told I would have no problem adding you to the 25% also.

    Oh, looks like I was being kind to you. Apparently your worldview is twisted enough that I'm worth being added to the mass grave because I'm insufficiently compliant to that very idea in the first place. Stay classy.

    Yep, definitely put you in the 25%. Useful idiot indeed.