NSA demands user information - Europe has to submit
After the US secret service NSA http://nsa.gov The wireless operator Verizon has obliged to pass on data of its customers, apps to disguise this gain in importance with the US population. Various programs for encrypting identity and conversations are available for download from Google for Android and iOS devices. "Silent Circle" http://silentcircle.comor "Wickr" http://mywickr.compromise a military-like encryption that conducts calls via 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi and thus avoid making calls via the operator. The apps claim to make wiretapping impossible and destroy photos, SMS and videos.
Mobile phone: Apps should make data unrecognizable (Photo: pixelio.de, Herrmann)
Connection data remain visible
The question with apps like this is how secure are they really? Snapchat has also promised to destroy sent content within seconds. However, these could finally be reconstructed again (press text reported: http://bit.ly/11ltsxB ).
"The content remains invisible, but the connection data is clearly traceable, that is, who communicated with whom. The protection provided by encryption is therefore inadequate," explains data protection expert Marit Hansen from the independent State Center for Data Protection in Schleswig-Holstein http://datenschutzzentrum.de opposite pressetext.
For this reason, an additional anonymization technique is important. Even with the transport layer security (SSL) for secure Internet data transmission, information is only encrypted in between - but on the end server it is again unencrypted, to which the NSA has access.
Indictment of poverty for Europe
Many are not even aware of the problem. The mere use of search engines or large American service providers makes monitoring easier. "If someone - also from Europe - uses, for example, Siri from Apple, the voice data is routed via the American server and stored in the Apple cloud," explains Hansen.
This information would be put into biometric profiles, which the NSA would have access to and identify all conversations by voice http://bit.ly/17tfIJt. The US has the right to access European data - but not the EU. "People should make themselves aware that service providers, even if they are not interested in the data themselves, cannot defend themselves if the US demands it. That is a sign of poverty for Europe," emphasizes the expert. More information on monitoring EU citizens is available at http://bit.ly/VlmgTT is available for storage, management and analysis.
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