'While encryption protects against cyberattacks, deploying it in warrant-proof form jeopardizes public safety more generally,' AG Barr says.
, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a former FBI special agent, said that his colleagues in law enforcement have been concerned about this issue going back at least a decade.
But he noted that public opinion was decidedly swayed away from the government in 2016, when federal prosecutors went to the mat against Apple as a way to compel it to break its own encryption in the wake of the San Bernardino, California, terrorist shooting. In that incident, Department of Justice officials ultimately said that a private company stepped in and was able to crack the device, sidestepping the legal question. In the wake of that case, major tech firms have been much more vocal about resisting government pressure, and encouraging members of Congress to not change the status quo.Meantime, Barr’s position is not universally accepted in those who still and formerly graced the halls of power.
In fact, Gen. Michael Hayden, who previously served as the head of the CIA and the National Security Agency, publicly disagreed with Barr’s remarks. In response to a news story about Barr’s statements that Americans should accept the security risks of back doors, Hayden
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