Michael Hayden Ran The NSA And CIA: Now Warns That Encryption Backdoors Will Harm American Security & Tech Leadership

But, there is one thing that Hayden and I agree on: putting backdoors into encryption is a horrible, dreadful, terrible idea. He makes two great points. First, backdooring encryption will make Americans much less safe. Second: backdooring encryption won't even help law enforcement do what it thinks it wants to do with backdoors.

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