Secret US cybersecurity report: encryption vital to protect private data

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/15/-sp-secret-us-cybersecurity-report-encryption-protect-data-cameron-paris-attacks

By James Ball
The Guardian
15 January 2015

A secret US cybersecurity report warned that government and private 
computers were being left vulnerable to online attacks from Russia, China 
and criminal gangs because encryption technologies were not being 
implemented fast enough.

The advice, in a newly uncovered five-year forecast written in 2009, 
contrasts with the pledge made by David Cameron this week to crack down on 
encryption use by technology companies.

In the wake of the Paris terror attacks, the prime minister said there 
should be no “safe spaces for terrorists to communicate” or that British 
authorites could not access.

Cameron, who landed in the US on Thursday night, is expected to urge 
Barack Obama to apply more pressure to tech giants, such as Apple, Google 
and Facebook, which have been expanding encrypted messaging for their 
millions of users since the revelations of mass NSA surveillance by the 
whistleblower Edward Snowden.

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