Backdoors for encryption tools undermine privacy, Cam Kerry writes for The Boston Globe. “No amount of magical thinking can undo the contradiction between promoting strong encryption as a defense against the barrage of identity theft, espionage and other cybercrimes while opening up new vulnerabilities,” Kerry says. “There is an acute need to strengthen data security everywhere and no realistic way to leave a door open for good guys and democracies that have rigorous checks and balances but not for cybercriminals or authoritarian states … The time has come for the president to shut the door on backdoors and send a clear message to the world that American technology is a trusted instrument of freedom.”
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