FBI anti-terror official calls on tech firms to 'prevent encryption above all else'
Found on The Guardian on Friday, 05 June 2015
When the communication is done through encrypted channels, rather than in public, the FBI and others have a much harder time intercepting it. That led Steinbach to appeal to the companies building encryption products.
“When we intercept it, we intercept encrypted communications. So that’s the challenge: working with those companies to build technological solutions to prevent encryption above all else."
Luckily the world is not America, and the development of encrypted means of communication will just move elsewhere. Someone should tell Steinbach that encryption can be really useful for data, especially when chinese hackers steal your staff data.