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October 9, 2014

Why The FBI's Desire To Unlock Your Private Life Must Be Resisted

Eric Holder, the outgoing US attorney general, has joined the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in calling for the security of all computer systems to be fatally weakened. This isn’t a new project – the idea has been around since the early 1990s, when the NSA classed all strong cryptography as a “munition” and regulated civilian use of it to ensure that they had the keys to unlock any technological countermeasures you put around your data. In 1995, the Electronic Frontier Foundation won a landmark case establishing that code was a form of protected expression under the First Amendment...