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NSA Chief: Arguing Against Encryption Is a Waste of Time (theintercept.com)
An anonymous reader writes: On Thursday, NSA director Mike Rogers said, "encryption is foundational to the future." He added that it was a waste of time to argue that encryption is bad or that we ought to do away with it. Rogers is taking a stance in opposition to many other government officials, like FBI director James Comey. Rogers further said that neither security nor privacy should be the imperative that drives everything else. He said, "We've got to meet these two imperatives. We've got some challenging times ahead of us, folks."
Maybe because terrorists represent a vanishingly small percentage of the overall population. In other words, they're not everywhere and out to get you. Tiger-repellant rocks, anyone?
Whatever backdoors are present, they are irrelevant if the payload being transferred is itself strong encrypted.