Matsuda Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 India will ask the US to share its technology on how to decrypt conversations over various services like Viber, Whatsapp, Skype, Wechat and Blackberry messenger while complaining about service providers in US who invariably reject New Delhi's request for co-operation in investigating cyber crimes.As per an agenda note circulated by the Union Home Ministry ahead of the Indo-US Police Chiefs conference on December 4-5, India plans to tell the US that the above-mentioned chatting services pose a "challenge" to security agencies to intercept and decipher communications and US should share its technology on how it does the same, unless the chatting services share their decryption keys."The availability of their web servers in India is required for legal interception of communications in real time for timely action by security and intelligence agencies. The communication over these services is encrypted and the encryption-decryption technologies available with the service providers will be required by security agencies even if the facility for lawful interception of these communications is extended to security agencies in India.The technology in use by US agencies may be an area of co-operation," the agenda note said. India has been pressing the said chatting services to share decryption keys with the agencies. Intelligence Bureauhas inputs that anti-social elements and terrorists may be using such chatting services to draw up plans and conspiracies.India will complain to US that services providers like Hotmail, Google, Facebook and Twitter - based in US - have "never even in a single case" provided profile or e-mail contents requested by India for investigations and have refused to remove hate speech contents from the social networking websites."In many instances, hate speeches on various sites have created communal violence within India. Even in such important matters, service providers have refused to remove contents from their servers blocking the same from public viewing citing the legal provisions of the country where their servers are based," the agenda note says.Intelligence Bureau Chief Asif Ibrahim recently made a case for US service providers to be brought under the ambit of Indian law. India is proposing to set up an 'Indo-American Alert, Watch and Warn network' of law enforcement agencies of both countries to rapidly co-operate in cyber crimes as even for simple internet logs, the service providers take 15-80 days to respond to Indian requests."In terms of cyber crime investigations, this is akin to a lifetime. Further, there is no guarantee that the required information will be provided at all," the note says, pointing that service providers have not provided even week-old logs.No co-ordination post H'bad blastsIn a presentation to the US authorities including Ambassador Nancy Powell, India is expected to admit that there was 'no proper co-ordination' between various investigative agencies like NIA and state police units like CID and Octopus after the Hyderabad blasts on February 21, 2013 and that there was no standard operating procedure to handle terror attacks.Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janedoe Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Great, that's just what the world needs - more countries following in the NSA's footsteps and adopting their highly questionable/downright illegal tactics to spy on their own and others' citizens. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aliya Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 I don't think it should be a good step which has been taken by us, this is totally illigal to decrpt convestion of various social messangers. And anyone has doing the same thing then its all a cyber crime, in which the rule is quite so hard.I think the team of cyber crime investigator will read to take an action on such kind of act. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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