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Bypassing encryption: 'Lawful hacking' is the next frontier of law enforcement technology

  • Written by Ben Buchanan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cyber Security Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
imageHow can investigators get into digital files?Sherlock Holmes and computer via shutterstock.com

The discussion about how law enforcement or government intelligence agencies might rapidly decode information someone else wants to keep secret is – or should be – shifting. One commonly proposed approach, introducing what is called a...

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