NSA director: ‘Encryption is foundational to the future’
“Concerns about privacy have never been higher. Trying to get all those things right, to realize that it isn’t about one or the other,” Rogers explained. He went on to say that security shouldn’t be the focus “to drive everything,” like many government officials argue.
FBI director James Comey has been pushing for backdoor access for law enforcement for quite some time, citing the dangers of the “bad parts” of encryption. Of course, those backdoors for government would give hackers a way in, too. Comey recently went as far as to recommend tech companies give up end-to-end encryption for customers completely, which would allow them to intercept messages and other content to hand over to law enforcement. With legislators planning bills that would require a way in for the authorities, the encryption debate is only getting started.
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