The U.S. government’s argument for backdoors into encrypted devices has received a fresh blow as another of its own former top brass has come out against the idea. Kaigham “Ken” Gabriel, former acting director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the military’s top-secret, high-tech operation responsible for inventing the forerunner to the Internet, told the IAPP’s Jennifer Baker in a recent interview for The Privacy Advisor that he was strongly in favor of personal privacy even in the face of other interests: "Personal privacy is paramount,” he said. “The reality is, we as countries and companies have had the technology to effectively encrypt things to the point where even nation states can’t necessarily decrypt them for some time now. I actually think that in general, that is a good thing.”
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