<story><title>Insecure by design: protocols for encrypted phone calls</title><url>https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2016/01/19/insecure-by-design-protocols-for-encrypted-phone-calls/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dotBen</author><text>If a government agency responsible for signal monitoring and espionage suggests an encryption format, endorses one particular format over another or even just actively participates in such discussions -- shouldn&amp;#x27;t that raise alarm bells in most tech-savvy people&amp;#x27;s heads?&lt;p&gt;The reality is the telecommunication industries in UK, US and other nations are complicit with such activity because they are legally required to provide access to their partners in government intelligence.  And they operate in highly regulated environments that they will be shut out of if they don&amp;#x27;t cooperate.&lt;p&gt;Encryption has moved to the OS level, which is why we&amp;#x27;re seeing similar pressure being presented to Apple with this terrorist&amp;#x27;s iPhone.</text></comment>
<story><title>Insecure by design: protocols for encrypted phone calls</title><url>https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2016/01/19/insecure-by-design-protocols-for-encrypted-phone-calls/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cema</author><text>I think a number of the comments tend to use the word &amp;quot;country&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;government&amp;quot;. The UK, France, and all other first world countries are great countries, in many ways that count. Governments however are not so great, and cannot be expected to be, by the nature of being institutes of suppression (as well as castles of bureaucracies). Still, compared to the rest of the world, they are manageable, and often tolerable.</text></comment>