Why the fear over ubiquitous data encryption is overblown
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-need-for-ubiquitous-data-encryption/2015/07/28/3d145952-324e-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html
By Mike McConnell, Michael Chertoff and William Lynn
Mike McConnell is a former director of the National
Security Agency and director of national intelligence. Michael
Chertoff is a former homeland security secretary and is
executive chairman of the Chertoff Group, a security and risk
management advisory firm with clients in the technology sector.
William Lynn is a former deputy defense secretary and is chief
executive of Finmeccanica North America and DRS Technologies ...
We recognize the importance our officials attach to
being able to decrypt a coded communication under a warrant or
similar legal authority. But the issue that has not been
addressed is the competing priorities that support the
companies' resistance to building in a back door or duplicated
key for decryption. We believe that the greater public good is a
secure communications infrastructure protected by ubiquitous
encryption at the device, server and enterprise level without
building in means for government monitoring.
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