The worry that communications companies increasingly offering default encryption for their services will severely hamper law enforcement and intelligence operations is significantly overblown, according to a new report out Feb. 1 from Harvard University.The problem of increasing encryption in criminal or terrorist electronic devices locking out legal and legitimate law enforcement or intelligence operations has been called the problem of “going dark.” The U.S. intelligence and law enforcement communities have described a situation where technology architectures, especially encryption, are increasingly…
Harvard Report Says Law Enforcement Going Dark Encryption Worries Are Overblown
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Rich Abott
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