The FBI's Desired Encryption Back Doors Could Harm Intelligence Gathering, Military Operations
Found on Techdirt on Thursday, 27 November 2014
Silent Circle's Blackphone already has customers in the military and its promise of encrypted communications has seen it put into service by other governments around the world.
The company says that legislation making encryption unavailable to the public could also hurt intelligence collection. The intelligence community today is a great deal larger and more diverse than it was 50 years ago.
Silent Circle wants to make this for the masses, but if the legislative landscape shifts now that midterm elections are over, it could mean that the government will only allow encrypted communications if it can pick and choose who gets to enjoy this "privilege."
Funny how governments still think they can control what's going on. If there are legal issues which make it impossible to market a product that's useful, like encryption, just release it in another part of the world.