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Split In The Government Over Encryption Policy

The battle pertaining to the encrypted data and the access that is required by the government has now gone in court. There is still a solute between different tech manufactures and the law enforcement about the back door creation is a debate that is still ongoing. The DOJ and James Comey, the Director of FBI is fighting really hard to gain the necessary access of the iPhone that may contain some kind of evidence pertaining to the attacks on San Bernardino.

Split In The Government Over Encryption Policy

The government is still working hard to convince various departments to be a part of the battle that is presently going on seems to be failing. As per the justice officials of the Federal department, they say that it becomes a challenge to track criminals since the data is strongly encrypted. However the officials in a few departments state that it is important as encryption helps to safeguard vital information. As of now, this issue has become the main point of conversation and even arguments in various meetings of the National Security Council and other such places.

There is also a concern by a few officials of the government that this kind of a confrontation could lead to a distrust that may be developed towards America products that are shipped overseas and even drive top criminals and terrorist to seek encryption that is foreign made.

The Homeland Security officials as well as the National security agency officials are opposing the ongoing fight on the basis of the concerns. Luke Dembosky, the deputy assistant attorney general for the national security as well as the sr. prosecutor for cyber security pertaining to various hacking cases that was the biggest known in the past few years, had caste disagreements which are broad in concern to the fact that it is healthy to have encryption.

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