Security or respect for private life? (Illustration) – SEBASTIEN SALOM-GOMIS / SIPA
    • 29/07/2016 at 19:56
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A new center of the controversy . One of the terrorists who brutally murdered the priest Jacques Hamel, Tuesday
 the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, using the Telegram application. These included announced plans to take action

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Often presented as the preferred application of jihadists Daesh, Telegram is an instant messaging app launched in 2013. Two communication modes coexist. One, classical, from person to person. The other, specific to Telegram, is a group discussion method that can bring together thousands of people.
 Daesh are used for propaganda.

“When Telegram receives channel closure applications, they are slow to respond, while Facebook and Twitter are more reactive,” says Gerome Billois specialist cybersecurity firm Wavestone . After the attacks in November 2015, and under pressure, Telegram agreed to close 78 jihadists accounts.

Marketing Argument

This refusal to cooperate with the authorities several reasons. Russian Pavel Durov, a founder, describes himself as libertarian advocates freedom of communication. The marketing agument then praises the security of the application (using the
 message encryption), and respect for privacy. “I think our right to privacy is more important than our fear that bad things happen, like the
 terrorism, had said in September 2015 Pavel Durov. In the end, the Islamic state will always find a way to communicate. If a means of communication proves insufficiently secure for them, they will find another. I do not think we should feel guilty. “Do not forget the physical impossibility for teams Telegram read all messages and control everything.

When a person to person conversation, it is possible to choose option “cat secret.” By default, communications are not encrypted. But once enabled, Telegram has no access to message content. It’s like a lock code, obviously more sophisticated. “Encryption is an information protection mechanism and it can take months or years to decipher,” says Gerome Billois, who believes that, in fact, Whatsapp Messenger and such are as safe as Telegram .

“Ten million messages per hour ‘

by cons, discussion groups, or channels, are not encrypted from end to end. So Telegram can access. Except humanly, it would be impossible to analyze everything. “Today, overall, ten million messages are sent every hour on Telegram,” said Gerome Billois. We must therefore rely on an alert from a user …

There are many semantic analysis software. Those that use Google to stick you on a pub Rome just after a discussion with a friend about a trip to Italy. But these programs are not very smart. If you talk about a bomb, referring sexist strand to a person, they will tape on the first meaning of the word

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This raises the question thousand euros (or more). How to preserve the safety of persons in respect of their privacy? This application is in fact also used by dissidents in dictatorships. Companies also use encryption. “If we give the keys to governments to access this information, there may be a risk to privacy” says Gerome Billois. It’s almost as if the Post could read all the mail.

Budapest Convention and cyberspace

So, can the law s’ apply to force Telegram to provide information? Except that? Everything seems a little fuzzy. “The Telegram headquarters is located in Berlin, under the foundation status, says Gerome Billois. But servers can be disseminated around the world. “And then the whole issue of international law resurfaced. “All countries have not signed the Budapest Convention facilitates and enables the police investigations in cyberspace,” says the specialist. This gray area will take this opportunity not only to jihadists. Cybercriminals are also on the go

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