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February 1, 2016 04:30 pm GMT

Report: Forget 'Going Dark,' surveillance will survive the age of encryption

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Don't panic. Seriously, don't. That's the message to the intelligence community — especially the FBI — from a group of cybersecurity and policy experts who make a fairly compelling case that, despite law enforcement concerns, end-to-end encryption will not result in the Internet "Going Dark" or hamper efforts to track and foil terrorists.

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Those concerns were raised anew after the deadly attacks in Paris last November. New York City Police Commission William Bratton said at the time that end-to-end messaging encryption was hampering their investigative efforts. "We’re losing the ability to gather intelligence… Offense is intelligence and we are losing a lot of that offense momentum because of this issue.” Read more...

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