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A coalition of dozens of the largest tech companies in the world is adamantly opposing any form of an official "backdoor" into encrypted devices.
The Information Technology Industry Council is a group of more than 60 major tech companies and organizations, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Intel and Facebook.
"We deeply appreciate law enforcement's and the national security community's work to protect us," the council said in a statement issued Thursday, "but weakening encryption or creating backdoors to encrypted devices and data for use by the good guys would actually create vulnerabilities to be exploited by the bad guys, which would almost certainly cause serious physical and financial harm across our society and our economy."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 27 2015, @07:43AM
The press is still claiming encryption was used by the Paris terrorists, and nobody seems to call them out on this.
And even if they did, that would still be no justification to trample on the rights of ordinary citizens. This is disgusting on all fronts.
One more incident in the US, with an encrypted phone anywhere in the same city and Congress will fall all over themselves rushing to pass backdoor legislation.
That's really the problem with these fakers: They say they are pro-freedom when all is well, but then they completely discard their principles when something goes wrong.