The Russian company eliminated the news channels associated with the Islamist group, while other security companies like Silent Circle, creator of blackphone, adjusted its procedures to prevent misuse of their platform
Accused of serving as communication channels jihadists who escaped to counterterrorism after the attacks in Paris, services IM for mobile phones decided to act and blocked accounts tied to the Islamic group or limited access to their applications.
The one that enjoys more security Telegram announced that blocked dozens of accounts related to the EI used to to extremist propaganda.
Meanwhile, the courier said Silent Circle has restricted access to their applications in smartphones to hinder its use by terrorists and criminals.
Extremely popular, new services of instant communication over the Internet as WhatsApp, Viber or iMessage are a problem for the authorities, who try to detect attacks and projects do not always have the means to break the encryption codes.
Launched in 2013 by the enfant terrible of the on Russian line scene Pavel Durov, who fought in the past to the powerful intelligence service FSB, Telegram, through which pass 10,000 million messages a day, is in the first line .
Responding to concerns about the protection of privacy on the Internet, the application owes its popularity to a very complex coding system as the “secret” talks are not stored on any server. The company guarantees that never transmit personal data of its users to third parties.
“We are upset after learning that public accounts Telegram were used by EI to spread their propaganda,” acknowledged Telegram in its account officer Wednesday night. “Therefore, we have it blocked 78 bills related to EI in 12 languages this week,” he said.
This is open to the public to enable the dissemination of news channels, not private conversations.
The application said that preparing new procedures to enable users to establishing “public questionable content.”
“Privacy is a supreme law. In contrast, public broadcasters nothing have to do with this and that is why we remove the contents of ISIS “Durov said from his official Twitter account. In turn, the official account Telegram said the attacks were coordinated through simple text messages.
Silent Circle, based in Switzerland, which developed the ultra-safe smartphones blackphone and provides applications Silent Phone for messaging totally private, announced that it will introduce more sophisticated payment technologies “to reduce the likelihood” that such applications are used by the EI.
“Since the EI called us stronger product, we will install procedures responsible and morally acceptable to complicate access to our technologies to bad elements, “said Mike Janke, founder of Silent Circle.
After the attacks in January in Paris, several US presidents like Barack Obama or Britain’s David Cameron, had already stated that the messaging put national security at risk.
In Russia in mourning for the Airbus airliner bombing of Metrojet in Egypt, a parliamentary responsible, Alexandre Agueiev asked Monday the Russian intelligence services (FSB) Telegram and eventually control block in Russia, stressing that this courier is “actively used for propaganda purposes by terrorists of the Islamic State”.
This is equivalent to “block the use of Toyota cars because they like the terrorists, “said the Minister of Communication Nikolai Nikiforov.
Telegram founder, Pavel Durov, who left Russia in 2014 because of tensions with the authorities, He joked to propose then “ban the words”.
Before creating this messaging in the United States with his brother Nikolai, this young genius of Russian Internet was founded in 2006, on leaving college St. Petersburg, the social network VKontakte, quickly turned into the most popular in Russia ahead of Facebook.
His new creation recorded a brilliant success in the context of the revelations of the US intelligence exconsultor Edward Snowden, a refugee in Russia and Pavel Durov proposed contract.
The company recalled on Wednesday night that if you block public content linked to terrorism, but also pornographic or violate the intellectual property, will not fold all to “local restrictions on freedom of expression.”
“If you criticize a government is illegal in one country Telegram not participate in this censorship,” he said, stressing that it would be “contrary to the principles its founders. “
The courier insurance Threema meanwhile warned against a” total surveillance “.
” We do not know how intelligence agencies collect their information but based in a total surveillance to control social and political problems never worked in the past and will not work in the future “, told AFP a spokesman for Threema, Roman Flepp.
” Sacrifice some basics our Western democracy liberty, privacy and freedom of expression for achieving a false sense of security does not seem reasonable, “he said.
Agency AFP
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