US government officials are pressuring software companies to implement encryption backdoors because they think it will help them catch potential terrorists. At the same time, they banned security software...
Continue Reading from a Russian company for use in the US government because they are concerned about security backdoors. They want to have it both ways, which is understandable. And, it is not even controversial to know that other governments will be taking the same steps against U.S. software manufacturers if they are forced to include encryption backdoors. U.S. software companies will suffer. The net result is that the entire internet will become completely untrustable -- there will be back doors everywhere and governments and bad guys will use them at will. We have to hold ourselves to a higher standard and lead the way to show the rest of the world the right way to secure the internet.