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Three top US security chiefs speak out against plans to weaken encryption

Quite a contrast with the Conservative Party’s hostility to encryption in the UK:

Fears over encryption overblown, say American security chiefs

Mike McConnel, former director of the NSA, Michael Chertoff, former homeland security secretary and William Lynn, former deputy defence secretary, have backed ubiquitous encryption and said it would be a mistake to weaken it (The Washington Post). “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,” they wrote in an editorial. [Wired]

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