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March 4, 2016 05:10 am GMT

Former heads of NSA and Homeland Security unlikely Apple supporters in encryption battle

Former Homeland Security secretary and Chairman, Committee of Conscience, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Michael Chertoff speaks at a press conference on the release of a report on the plight of the Yezidi people of northern Iraq, by the Holocaust Memorial Museums Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide on November 12, 2015 at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/MANDEL NGAN        (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)At a panel discussion today at the RSA conference in San Francisco, Apple found two unlikely allies when the former heads of the NSA and HomelandSecurity threw their support behind encryption technologies. Michael Chertoff, who was the head of Homeland Security under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and who helped author the USA Patriot Act, and former NSA headMike McConnell… Read More

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