[governance] End to End encryption (was: Fwd: FB open letter e2e update...)

Mon Oct 7 10:06:15 EDT 2019

Dear colleagues and friends,

this is to let you know that an open letter initiated by CDT is
currently in the signature stage. I am surprised this discussion hasn't
made it to the IGC mailing list through other channels, especially given
the short notice. Please give this a consideration, that the concept of
"backdoors" provide a malicious actor with a single point of entry, a
weakness in the security systems that secure our privacy and transactions.
Kindest regards,

Olivier
(my own views)

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	FB open letter e2e update...
Date: 	Sat, 5 Oct 2019 09:58:18 -0400
From: 	Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joe at cdt.org>
To: 	Joe Hall <jhall at cdt.org>, Emma Llanso <ellanso at cdt.org>

Fellow encryption advocates,

First, thank you all and your organizations for signing on to the open
letter to Facebook on end-to-end encryption.

We released the first version of this letter at 12:30 US Eastern
yesterday, with 59 organizations signed on [1]. We're currently at 69
organizations in total, with a few others trying to get through
complicated clearance processes this weekend.

We'd love to get any civil society and digital rights organizations that
might feel similarly as all of us about the importance of the "digital
glue" that holds up the Internet and digital devices. We have set a
deadline of 23:59 UTC on Monday (17:00 US Pacific), so please feel free
to send the document link (privately or on lists) to others you think
might want to sign on, and have them send me email if they would like to
be added:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r97TeH8WsH5xyetolg-ejTTrvzWEMYiznu0WQ0YsaGM/edit

(The language is set given how many signatories we have.)

On Monday, we will close the letter and post a final HTML and PDF
versions of the letter with what I suspect will be an amazing showing of
solidarity for strong security for massive platforms like those that
Facebook controls.

Please take care of yourselves and have a good weekend, Joe

[1]:
https://cdt.org/insight/open-letter-facebooks-end-to-end-encryption-plans/

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