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

Tue Oct 8 01:05:46 EDT 2019

We have signed on, the three organisations I am a part of. Hope others do
too by sending Joe an email.

On Mon, 7 Oct 2019, 10:01 pm Ian Peter, <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:

> Oops - looking again, this seems to have already closed....
>
> Ian
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Ian Peter" <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
> To: salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com; "Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond" <
> ocl at gih.com>
> Cc: "governance" <governance at lists.riseup.net>
> Sent: 8/10/2019 7:53:44 AM
> Subject: Re[2]: [governance] End to End encryption (was: Fwd: FB open
> letter e2e update...)
>
> I support Sala's proposal that IGC signs on - however we have a deadline
> of Monday - can we come to a quick decision to do so before then? I guess
> an early question is whether anyone here is opposed to IGC signing on?
>
> In the mean time individual organisations here should sign on if they wish
> as per details below.
>
> Ian
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" <governance at lists.riseup.net>
> To: "Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond" <ocl at gih.com>
> Cc: "governance" <governance at lists.riseup.net>
> Sent: 8/10/2019 7:36:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [governance] End to End encryption (was: Fwd: FB open letter
> e2e update...)
>
> Thanks Olivier.
> I propose that the IGC signs on.
>
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2019, 3:06 pm Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, <ocl at gih.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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> <joe at cdt.org>
>> To: Joe Hall <jhall at cdt.org> <jhall at cdt.org>, Emma Llanso
>> <ellanso at cdt.org> <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/
>>
>> --
>> Joseph Lorenzo Hall
>> Chief Technologist, Center for Democracy & Technology [
>> https://www.cdt.org]
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