Hilary Clinton To Tech Companies: Weaken Your Encryption
You might have heard that Hilary Clinton is running for President of the United States….. Again. And she has a message to tech companies in light of what has happened in Paris: Weaken the encryption on the devices you make to keep America safe from terrorists:
Another challenge is how to strike the right balance of protecting privacy and security. Encryption of mobile communications presents a particularly tough problem. We should take the concerns of law enforcement and counterterrorism professionals seriously. They have warned that impenetrable encryption may prevent them from accessing terrorist communications and preventing a future attack. On the other hand, we know there are legitimate concerns about government intrusion, network security, and creating new vulnerabilities that bad actors can and would exploit. So we need Silicon Valley not to view government as its adversary. We need to challenge our best minds in the private sector to work with our best minds in the public sector to develop solutions that will both keep us safe and protect our privacy. Now is the time to solve this problem, not after the next attack.
Talk about a slippery slope. While I am not naive enough to believe that absolute privacy exists, I’m not the least bit interested in having backdoors in every device that I own so that the government can snoop whenever it feels the need to. Seeing as companies like Apple and Google aren’t interested in playing ball when it comes to building backdoors into their products or weakening the encryption of their products, you can expect this to become an election issue between now and the election in 2016.
If you want to see the full speech that Ms. Clinton made these comments in, here’s the video:
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Hilary Clinton To Tech Companies: Weaken Your Encryption
You might have heard that Hilary Clinton is running for President of the United States….. Again. And she has a message to tech companies in light of what has happened in Paris: Weaken the encryption on the devices you make to keep America safe from terrorists:
Another challenge is how to strike the right balance of protecting privacy and security. Encryption of mobile communications presents a particularly tough problem. We should take the concerns of law enforcement and counterterrorism professionals seriously. They have warned that impenetrable encryption may prevent them from accessing terrorist communications and preventing a future attack. On the other hand, we know there are legitimate concerns about government intrusion, network security, and creating new vulnerabilities that bad actors can and would exploit. So we need Silicon Valley not to view government as its adversary. We need to challenge our best minds in the private sector to work with our best minds in the public sector to develop solutions that will both keep us safe and protect our privacy. Now is the time to solve this problem, not after the next attack.
Talk about a slippery slope. While I am not naive enough to believe that absolute privacy exists, I’m not the least bit interested in having backdoors in every device that I own so that the government can snoop whenever it feels the need to. Seeing as companies like Apple and Google aren’t interested in playing ball when it comes to building backdoors into their products or weakening the encryption of their products, you can expect this to become an election issue between now and the election in 2016.
If you want to see the full speech that Ms. Clinton made these comments in, here’s the video:
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This entry was posted on November 22, 2015 at 10:00 am and is filed under Commentary. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.