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Governments undermining encryption will do more harm than good

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageWestern governments are threatening to undermine the encryption that keeps our online communications private.Shutterstock

Western governments, notably the UK and the US, are pushing the software industry to open “backdoors” into our encrypted communications.

The argument touted by government agencies for nearly 20 years is that...

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