Is Law Enforcement “Going Dark” Because of Encryption? Hardly, Says New Report
"Bring technologists and members of the intelligence community together to figure out what to do about unbreakable encryption and guess what they conclude?
They conclude that they don’t really need to worry about it.
Unbreakable encryption — which prevents easy, conventional surveillance of digital communications — isn’t a big problem for law enforcement, says a new report published by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society on Monday. The report, titled “Don’t Panic,” finds that we are probably not “headed to a future in which our ability to effectively surveil criminals and bad actors is impossible” because of companies that offer end-to-end encryption, such as Apple."
https://theintercept.com/2016/02/01/is-law-enforcement-going-dark-because-of-encryption-hardly-says-new-report/
