What Is The “Going Dark” Problem?

In this modern world the technology is emerging day by and the advancement in the systems with more security due to this the law enforcement people need to work harder and harder to get into the systems as they are more secure. This inability to access the communication information of any criminal is known as the “Going Dark”. There are many distinct challenges regarding going dark issue. Some challenges are mainly related to call records, messages, email, photos and videos data which is becoming difficult to obtain quickly which can be used as an evidence and to convict the perpetrators or can submit is as proof of innocence. FBI is not against the strong encryption, because they know the real problem faced by less secure connection. But the difficulties are getting more complex for extracting the valuable information. And due to many companies providing the VoIP services other than the CALEA which leads to more intercepts. The encrypted messages which is used by the social networking sites are becoming the problem as terrorist use these platforms to convey their message to people in the country and encourage them to commit crime which cannot be tracked as messages are encrypted.

Who are participating in the “Going Dark” debate?

Professor Jonathan Zittrain, Matthew Olsen (Director of National Counterterrorism Center) and Bruce Schneie (Cryptographer) together leads the project. The name for the project is obtain by combining the two names Berkman and Hewlett forming “Berklett” as the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation supports the efforts for this problem. Many of the participants in this debate are generally full-time government agency employs due to this nothing is inferred about the views they put regarding going dark. The names of these participants are Larry Schwartztol, Susan Landau, Anne Neuberger, Joseph Nye, David R. O’Brien, Daphna Renan, John DeLong, Urs Gasser, Hon. Nancy Gertner, Jack Goldsmith, Julian Sanchez.

What are their opinions?

Sensor network and the IoT are the most trending projects which will grow in future, which will lead to change in the surveillance systems. And in future we can monitor the afar person through different channel which is not possible these days. For the systems operations such as phone calling, header from mail and the location data the metadata for this information need to be in unencrypted format. For the comprehensive and widespread of the encryption the standardization and the coordination need to be improved, by fragmenting the software ecosystems. Now days nearly all the companies are using the system of end to end encryption for the security of the data for their users, as there is the requirement of communication services in every companies and the data recovery if someone forgets the user id or the password. For the access of the encrypted data, we collect the data for identifying the objective of the case or investigate the backdoor impact.