http://www.dailydot.com/politics/hillary-clinton-encryption-backdoors/?tw=ddHillary Clinton on Thursday condemned tech companies' staunch refusal to weaken their encryption to make law-enforcement and counterterrorism investigations easier for the government. "We need our best minds in the private sector to work with our best minds in the public sector to develop solutions that will both keep us safe and protect our privacy," the former secretary of state and Democratic presidential frontrunner said at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. The issue of whether tech companies should add "backdoors" to their products' encryption—which would ensure that police and intelligence agencies could decrypt suspects' communications—rose unexpectedly to the forefront of the national-security conversation after the Paris terrorist attacks. Although there is no evidence that the attackers used encryption to hide their planning conversations from authorities, politicians quickly seized on the incident to make their case for backdoors.
