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NGA Deputy Director: ‘Data is the New Black’

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Deputy Director Susan Gordon on Wednesday called for the government and Intelligence Community to prioritize innovation to better confront the broad array […] More

Going Dark

The government is in a bind – it wants to stop criminals and terrorists, but it also wants to support strong encryption. Navigating this quandary […] More

An Absurd Argument

The private sector perspective on encryption technology is critical to understanding the crux of the debate.  Amid news that Dell had agreed to buy RSA’s […] More

Going Dark

Michael Chertoff, the former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, sat down with The Cipher Brief to explain why he believes a secure communications […] More

Public Policy Tradeoff

When the Clinton Administration decontrolled encryption in the late 1990s after a long and acrimonious debate, it did so because it had decided that the […] More

The Encryption Debate

“Are we so mistrustful of government—and of law enforcement—that we are willing to let bad guys walk away…willing to leave victims in search of justice?” […] More

Lawful Hacking

According to press reports, the White House has considered and rejected four options to address the so-called “going dark” problem where the growing ubiquity of […] More

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