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Real security requires strong encryption – even if investigators get blocked

  • Written by Susan Landau, Professor of Computer Science, Law and Diplomacy and Cybersecurity, Tufts University
imageWhat's the best way to keep data secure?Victor Moussa/Shutterstock.com

The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice have been fighting against easy, widespread public access to encryption technologiesfor 25 years. Since the bureau’s dispute with Apple in 2016 over access to the encrypted iPhone of one of the two people who shot 14 victims in...

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