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Non Sequor [soylentnews.org] writes:

http://fortune.com/2016/02/19/hayden-apple-fbi/ [fortune.com]

Choice quotes from an interview with Gen. Michael Hayden on Wednesday:

“The issue here is end-to-end, unbreakable encryption—should American firms be allowed to create such a thing?” he told the Wall Street Journal editor John Bussey. “You’ve got [FBI director] Jim Comey on one side saying, I am really going to suffer if I can’t read Tony Soprano’s email. Or, if I’ve got to ask Tony for the PIN number before I get to read Tony’s emails. Jim Comey makes that complaint, and I get it. That is right. There is an unarguable downside to unbreakable encryption.”

“I think Jim Comey is wrong…Jim’s logic is based on the belief that he remains the main body. That you should accommodate your movements to him, which is the main body. And I’m telling you, with regard to the cyber domain, he’s not. You are.”

And by the way? If I were in Jim Comey’s job, I’d have Jim Comey’s point of view. I understand. But I’ve never been in Jim Comey’s job…my view on encryption is the same as [former Secretary of Homeland Security] Mike Chertoff’s, it’s the same as [former Deputy Secretary of Defense] Bill Lynn’s, and it’s the same as [former NSA director] Mike McConnell, who is one of my predecessors.”

It's interesting for this opinion to be coming from this source.

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