http://www.networkworld.com/article/2984574/security/obama-advisors-encryption-backdoors-would-hurt-cybersecurity-net-infrastructure-vendors.html
By Tim Greene
Network World
Sep 16, 2015
Making encryption backdoors available to law enforcement would be bad for
cybersecurity in general and hurt vendors that make encryption gear, a
presidential advisory group says.
While the FBI argues that it needs legislation to require access points
into encryption platforms, the National Security Council is preparing to
tell President Obama that the downsides include weakening the privacy of
Internet communications, according to a draft NSC report obtained by the
Washington Post.
“[B]ecause any access point to encrypted data increases risk, if
government efforts to secure access are successful, this approach would
reduce cybersecurity,” the document says.
At the same time, laws forcing vendors to build in encryption keys for
police use would create a thicket of problems for vendors such as losing
buyers in other countries that don’t want their communications hackable by
U.S. law enforcement. If other countries enacted similar laws, though,
that might ease the burden.
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