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May 19th, 2015 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Apple, Google, and a host of other tech companies and cryptology experts have signed a letter sent to President Obama calling on his administration to stem any proposal that seeks to weaken encryption security to benefit policing agencies.
More than 140 firms, technologists, and security experts sent a
letter to the White House on Tuesday calling for the protection
of encrypted data on smartphones and other communication devices
from law enforcement.
“Strong encryption is the cornerstone of the modern
information economy’s security,” the letter reads, adding
that the Obama administration must “fully support and not
undermine efforts to create encryption standards” and not
“in any way subvert, undermine, weaken or make
vulnerable” commercial software.
The message is in response to top law enforcement officials’
unease with Apple and Google offering phones with such strong
encryption that even police with a warrant are unable to gain
access. The likes of FBI Director James Comey have claimed such
strong protection is a threat to public safety.
“There’s no doubt that all of us should care passionately
about privacy, but we should also care passionately about
protecting innocent people,” Comey said recently, according to The Washington Post, which first
reported on the letter.
Comey said he was “concerned” after Google and Apple
announced their encryption efforts last year.
“I am a huge believer in the rule of law, but I also believe
that no one in this country is beyond the law,” he said.
“What concerns me about this is companies marketing something
expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the
law.”
The US Justice Department says it supports encryption that allows
users to protect their data from intrusion. Yet the department
also wants to have access for itself, ultimately claiming that
strictly-private data is a threat to public safety.
Security experts say that encryption is essentially weakened if a
“backdoor” is built into technology for police access.
This security vulnerability also allows exploitation from hackers
or foreign governments, they add.
The letter was also signed by three of the five members of an
Obama-appointed review group that was tasked in 2013 with
analyzing US technology policy following major revelations of
government spying supplied by former intelligence contractor
Edward Snowden.
READ MORE: Snowden cost US control of
‘geopolitical narrative’ – former NSA official
Richard Clarke, a former cybersecurity adviser to President
George W. Bush, was one of those three members. He said similar
government efforts to require phone companies to supply backdoors
to encrypted voice calls in the 1990s were unsuccessful.
“If they couldn’t pull it off at the end of the Cold War,
they sure as hell aren’t going to pull it off now,” he told
the Post.
In March, more than 40 companies and civil
liberties groups wrote a letter to Congress and the Obama
administration that called on Washington to change its spying
laws in the wake of the National Security Agency spying scandal.
“Now is the time to take on meaningful legislative reforms to
the nation’s surveillance programs that maintain national
security while preserving privacy, transparency and
accountability,” the group said in the letter.
“[T]he status quo is untenable and it is urgent that Congress
move forward with reform.”
The companies, shown ultimately complicit in NSA surveillance programs, have since
attempted many times to call for reform of US
surveillance policies that they say undermines their products and
consumer trust.
Source Article from http://rt.com/usa/260113-backdoor-encryption-police-google/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS
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