OpenStack 11/05/2014 (p.m.)
BBC News - GCHQ's Robert Hannigan says tech firms 'in denial' on extremism
What I want to know is what we're going to do with that NSA data center at Bluffdale, Utah, after the NSA is abolished? Maybe give it to the Internet Archive?
- - By Paul Merrell
Web giants such as Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp have become "command-and-control networks... for terrorists and criminals", GCHQ's new head has said.
Islamic State extremists had "embraced" the web but some companies remained "in denial" over the problem, Robert Hannigan wrote in the Financial Times.
He called for them to do more to co-operate with security services.
However, civil liberties campaigners said the companies were already working with the intelligence agencies.
None of the major tech firms has yet responded to Mr Hannigan's comments.
Mr Hannigan said IS had "embraced the web as a noisy channel in which to promote itself, intimidate people, and radicalise new recruits."
The "security of its communications" added another challenge to agencies such as GCHQ, he said - adding that techniques for encrypting - or digitally scrambling - messages "which were once the preserve of the most sophisticated criminals or nation states now come as standard".
GCHQ and its sister agencies, MI5 and the Secret Intelligence Service, could not tackle these challenges "at scale" without greater support from the private sector, including the largest US technology companies which dominate the web, he wrote.
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