Intelligence Bureau has inputs that anti-social elements and terrorists may be using chatting services to draw up plans and conspiracies... NEW DELHI: 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 Delhis 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 Bureau has 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.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 03:37:31 +0000
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