FBI tells tech companies offering encryption to reconsider their business model

Despite zero indication the people responsible for recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino used encryption, the FBI is launching an all-out PR war on crypto.

Now, FBI director James Comey is making tech firms that offer end-to-end encryption tools an offer they can't refuse: they should reconsider their business model, he said today, and instead adopt encryption techniques that let them intercept communications, and hand them over to law enforcement when asked.

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