This is the key point, and one which is being (wilfully, I can only assume) ignored by lawmakers.

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Nov 24, 2015

security experts have shown again and again that weakening encryption will make it easier for foreign hackers, criminals and spies to break into Americans’ bank accounts, health records and phones, without preventing terrorists from “going dark.”

Encryption is not the enemy

Ron Wyden

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This is the key point, and one which is being (wilfully, I can only assume) ignored by lawmakers. It isn’t only happening in America, either — in the UK, the government is currently proposing legislation that would force communications service providers to build ‘backdoors’ into their encryption. They seem completely oblivious to the fact that if there exists a backdoor for the good guys, there also exists a backdoor for the bad guys.

Thank you for your work in opposing these potentially catastrophic political attitudes, and I hope other politicians (on both sides of the Atlantic) join you in doing so.