The Facebook appears to be trying to create an end-to-end encryption across the company and its network. In this movement you will also include the encryption of the links between the centers data her. The company's goal is to keep the government at the front door, and close the backdoors.
The social network's head of security infrastructure, Gregg Stefancik, told ZDNet reporters this morning that information leaked by Edward Snowden indicates that the US National Security Agency (NSA) had backdoors in data stored by companies such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple, and that they are concerned about government interference.
He said his company was trying to start encrypting the links between data centers several years ago.
"Snowden validated much of what we knew was needed to protect the public."
"It's quite complicated. It's more complicated than with the Appliances of consumers in a web front-end encryption, as we call it. This threat is very different because it comes from the network provider level. The complexity of our infrastructure means that unfortunately we are not there yet. We prioritize encrypting the traffic that's most sensitive to Facebook, and we're working aggressively to get to the point where we can tell you that we've encrypted everything between our data centers.”
Of course, we should mention that the encryption of these links may not be enough, if the Attorney General's Office demands otherwise. An order from the Office arrives for the monitoring of telecommunications, as well as all operators supply agencies are forced to assist with decrypting encrypted communications under a warrant.
