Tuesday, September 22, 2015

The US's Campaign Against Encryption Is Based on Blind Faith in Silicon Valley

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September 22, 2015

""The unanimous conclusion—the scientific consensus—in industry, in academia, and even among government experts is that there is a significant security risk associated with facilitating government access via a backdoor," Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist and lawyer at Stanford who is considered one of the nation's top security experts, said at an encryption policy event in Washington DC Monday.

“We know how to build one of these things that minimizes security and privacy problems. But the least bad is still really really bad,” Mayer added." Read more » about The US's Campaign Against Encryption Is Based on Blind Faith in Silicon Valley



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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on September 22, 2015 at 10:00AM

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