Note: This is an updated post on another blog we wrote on this subject last year. It has been updated and edited to reflect recent events. It’s been around a year since the Australian Parliament tabled, and hurriedly passed, the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 (Otherwise known as the AA …
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The ‘Five Eyes Alliance’ – Australia, USA, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom – have recently discussed installing ‘backdoors’ into popular messaging services like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Facebook Messenger. A backdoor would allow high-level access (a.k.a. root access) to users authorised (or not) on a computer system, network or software application. One proposed method …
Note: This article was edited on Thu 27 Feb, 2020, to address our explanation of pairwise channels and the Sender Keys system as they pertain to encrypted group messaging. We apologise if our previous explanation of these systems caused confusion or uncertainty. Loki Messenger Group Messaging Over the last few years we have seen the …