WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Earlier in April 2015, the US National Security Agency (NSA) Admiral Michael Rogers said that the NSA was interested in a solution to be able to access parts of a data encryption key for national security purposes, in addition to other parties, so no one person or agency would be able to act unilaterally.
Blaze explained that the United States could not build security backdoors in technology devices without seriously weakening US infrastructure.
“The ultimate beneficiaries will be criminals and rival nation states,” Blaze warned.
The Computer Science Professor noted that the US Congress faces a crucial choice to “effectively legislate mandatory insecurity in our critical infrastructure, or recognize the critical importance of robust security in preventing crime.”
"I understand and appreciate the need and desire for law enforcement to access digital information in a timely manner. However, I also understand the protections afforded by Americans provided by the constitution,” Hurd said.
Hurd warned that “a government mandated back or front door on our US based mobile device manufactures might undermine that trust."
US intelligence agencies have fallen under intense public scrutiny since 2013, when whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA, as well as other government agencies carried out extensive and illegal surveillance operations on foreign entities as well as US citizens.
