Former Chief of US National Intelligence Wants Backdoor Into Encryption

James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence, once more expressed his desire that law enforcement would be able to easily crack encryption delivered to Internet users via a wide range of apps and tools. 

"The so-called going dark phenomenon - a situation that was drastically accelerated by the Snowden revelations - n our country, I don't think we're in a good place here. I think there needs to be a very serious dialogue about giving criminals, terrorists, rapists, murderers, etcetera, a pass," Clapper said at the National Press Club. 

He references the fact that following Edward Snowden's NSA leaks, which detailed dozens of ways the intelligence agency snooped on people, both those under investigation and those that had done nothing wrong, has triggered a business-wide implementation of encryption protocols in apps and other communications tools. This, of course, is completely true, as numerous companies, including Google, Facebook, Apple and so on have ...