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WWW daddy Sir Tim Berners-Lee stands up for end-to-end crypto

It’s settled then, he has spoken

 

                                

 

4 Apr 2017 at 15:10, John Leyden
 

Sir Tim Berners-Lee has criticised plans to weaken encryption or extend surveillance in the wake of recent terrorist attacks.

 

Days after the attack on Westminster that claimed the lives of three pedestrians and a police officer, Home Secretary Amber Rudd said there should be no safe space for terrorists to communicate online. The comments came after it emerged that attacker Khalid Masood had checked WhatsApp – which offers end-to-end encryption – two minutes before ploughing an SUV through pedestrians on Westminster Bridge then leaping out and fatally stabbing an unarmed policeman standing guard at the gates of the Houses of Parliament.

 

Weakening encryption would be a mistake, according to Sir Tim. “If you’re trying to catch terrorists, it’s really tempting to demand to be able to break all that encryption but if you break that encryption then guess what – so could other people, and guess what – they may end up getting better at it than you are.”

 

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