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National Security Aims Risk Shooting Foot

Paul Mah has something important for the FBI, all lawmakers and the rest of us to ponder. 

 “…the implementation of (encryption) backdoors is not a technically feasible idea. …the presence of backdoors being built into existing software will prove to be completely irresistible to cybercriminals. And we’re not even talking about foreign states yet, one of which is suspected to have created the extremely advanced Stuxnet worm. So yes, these backdoors will be cracked eventually, resulting in devastating consequences to U.S. businesses and interests.” (more)

FutureWatch Prediction – Not all encryption will have a back door. 

Personal communications like phone calls and e-mail, yes. Government communications, no. A diplomatic pouch, even an electronic one, will remain a diplomatic pouch. Encryption in support of critical system infrastructures (like financial) will be licensed, with the proviso that the government can have the key under due process of law. 

Some things will never change. Governments will still crack. Criminals will still hack. Terrorists will won’t care – they still have codes, cyphers and stenography. Businesses which take their counterespionage strategies seriously will fare better than those who do not.