Durov said that a ban on secure communication services would drive the West into the cave of the slain dragon

The founder of VKontakte and Telegram Pavel Durov criticized British Prime Minister David Cameron's proposal to ban all types of secure communications in order to fight terrorism. The IT entrepreneur outlined his arguments against this initiative in a post on the Medium blogging platform, TJ reports.

According to Durov, attempts to ban communications whose content is inaccessible to law enforcement agencies and intelligence services will not help in the fight against the terrorist threat. Terrorists have many ways to bypass direct surveillance of their correspondence, the CEO of the secure messenger Telegram is sure.

“They can configure software to hide information in invisible graphic noise in pictures of funny cats. They can embed it in encrypted noise in seemingly innocuous voice messages or in the metadata of video recordings. Their possibilities are endless,” Durov gives examples. In his opinion, as a result, the British authorities will only waste taxpayers' money.

As the entrepreneur points out, the adoption of initiatives like the one proposed by David Cameron will ultimately result in the biggest victory for terrorists that they could ever hope for: “When there are CCTV cameras in every bedroom, there will be no more exploding bombs. But not because “that the cameras will not allow terrorists to kill us. But because we have accepted the values ​​of fear and control, the terrorists will no longer have any conflict with our civilization. We will kill the dragon and his cave will become our new home,” Durov concludes.

David Cameron announced plans to ban all forms of secure communications in mid-January, during his visit to Paris. As the politician said, if the party he leads wins the next elections, he is ready to introduce a bill to parliament that would outlaw mobile and Internet services, correspondence in which is inaccessible to the intelligence services. This measure, according to Cameron, will help protect society from attacks similar to the attack on the editorial office of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in France.

Critics of Cameron's idea point out that a hypothetical ban would deprive millions of users of access to services such as WhatsApp, Snapchat, FaceTime and Telegram.