[Cryptography] NYT: "Competing Interests on Encryption Divide Top Obama Officials"

[Perry E. Metzger]

New York Times:

   WASHINGTON — The intensifying legal battle over encryption between
   Apple and the Justice Department has all but obscured another more
   subtle division, the one inside the Obama administration itself.

   Driven by competing and sometimes clashing interests about privacy,
   national security and the economy, some of the president’s most senior
   aides are staking out a variety of positions on the issue.

   The White House denies there is disagreement over the effort to force
   Apple to break into the phone used by one of the terrorists in the San
   Bernardino, Calif., shootings, but the differences on how to deal with
   the broader questions raised by encryption have become increasingly
   apparent.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/us/politics/competing-interests-on-encryption-divide-top-obama-officials.html

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Perry E. Metzger		perry at piermont.com