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| Subject: Tech giants urge US against forcing encryption 'backdoors' Thu May 21, 2015 5:15 am | |
| A collection of tech industry giants including Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft, as well as civil liberties organisations and internet security experts, sent a letter to US President Barack Obama on Tuesday warning of the unintended consequences of any policy meant to weaken the encryption technologies that protect internet communications.
The White House has been weighing whether to mandate that companies use only forms of encryption that provide law enforcement with the means for unscrambled access — a so-called backdoor.
Critics in the technology industry are concerned that a backdoor for law enforcement in the United States would be a backdoor for everyone, including other governments and hackers. One Yahoo executive likened the proposal to "drilling a hole in the windshield."
http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/tech-giants-urge-us-against-forcing-encryption-backdoors-20150519-gh5gre.html |
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