WhatsApp in Trouble

Supreme Court to hear petition seeking ban on WhatsApp

As we all know, Few weeks back WhatsApp started using 256 bit End-TO-End connections in India.

but In India, a connection of 40 bit is considered legal and services that implementing this type of encryption have to register with Indian govt. Those who are using high level of encryption are currently in Gray area. Basically, WhatsApp is illegal in India but there are no guidelines currently present which can ban them.

The story doesn't end here,

End-to-End encryption is giving governments across the world a big headache to conflict crime and terrorism, and India is going through this problem too. With the current battle between the FBI and Apple wherein encryption of the records on the Iphone changed into a big trouble, WhatsApp and different messaging platforms are permitting encryption to guard the privacy of their customers. 

Though encrypting messages may be a super option in which hackers and the authorities cannot snoop on the user’s private lives,this cause a huge issue when police have to crack into messages that are passed on using this channel to protects its citizen

 one would need a whopping 115, 792, 089, 237, 316, 195, 423, 570, 985, 008, 687, 907, 853, 269, 984, 665, 640, 564, 039, 457, 584, 007, 913, 129, 639, 935 key combinations, which is almost impossible for even a super computer.

What now?

 The Supreme Court will hear next Wednesday a petition seeking a ban on WhatsApp on the ground that the messaging platform's end-to-end encryption gives terrorists a means of communication that is impossible to intercept.

Filed by Sudhir Yadav. A Haryana-based right-to-information (RTI) activist.

Is this Really a Solution?

Well,This is not a proper solution to the problem common man is going to be the one who will actually suffer if WhatsApp is banned because WhatsApp is a widely used messaging app. which is cheap and reliable and not only this.

And the main problem Terrorist  there are other platforms in which terrorists can safely communicate. The dark internet and hackers are well known with many tools that can encrypt messages at higher levels. Using VPN and TOR networking can also be chosen for using these encrypted messaging platforms.

Banning WhatsApp, Viber, Hike and many other encrypted messaging networks would not settle the issue, but could give an additional boost to the dark internet.


The apex court is now scheduled to hear his public interest litigation (PIL) petition on June 29. 
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