Declaring that strong encryption is essential to the nation’s security, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told a tech industry audience Wednesday that he’s “not a believer in back doors,” or encryption ...

Don’t be fooled by recent proposals — anyone who understands how technology works knows that “back doors” aren’t the answer. {mosads}Despite the flawed logic in such proposals, the concept continues ...

Police and tech security experts have weighed in with a possible solution to the immovable-object-meets-irresistible-force conundrum posed by the use of strong encryption. Across Europe, police argue ...

In recent months, we've seen calls from multiple government officials to roll back encryption protections and create backdoors in software. At certain points, the debate over these issues has reached ...

Isaac Potoczny-Jones is research lead, computer security at Galois, an organization that specializes in innovative security technologies for military and commercial organizations. This past April, ...

Since my start in 2008, I've covered a wide variety of topics from space missions to fax service reviews. At PCMag, much of my work focused on security and privacy services, as well as a video game or ...

It was a popular item, getting a bunch of retweets. But I realized later that I was wrong to post it, because I fell right into a trap the surveillance statists have been laying. I was implying that ...

A group of privacy advocates and tech companies recently asked the Obama administration to publicly support "strong encryption." But Obama administration officials have already said they support ...

As the FBI and the technology industry spar over the spread of strong encryption standards to consumer devices and services, federal law-enforcement officials have made the case that unbreakable ...

On the eve of his company’s court date with the FBI, where it will defend its right to not weaken the security of its own devices, Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage at a small theater in Cupertino to ...

There are two types of people in the world: people who will encrypt and people who will not. The former cohort is far smaller than the latter. That should change, but it won’t. In essence the argument ...