Bad Idea: Encryption Backdoors

Former national security officials have also come out in opposition to backdoors to encryption, including former director of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Hayden, former General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), James Baker, and former Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff.

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