Frosty Piss writes “Congressman Rush D. Holt, a New Jersey Democrat, has proposed legislation that would prohibit the agency from installing ‘back doors’ into encryption, the electronic scrambling that protects e-mail, online transactions and other communications. Representative Holt, a physicist, said Friday that he believed the NSA was overreaching and could hurt American interests, including the reputations of American companies whose products the agency may have altered or influenced. ‘We pay them to spy,’ Mr. Holt said. ‘But if in the process they degrade the security of the encryption we all use, it’s a net national disservice.'”… Frosty Piss writes “Congressman Rush D. Holt, a New Jersey Democrat, has proposed legislation that would prohibit the agency from installing ‘back doors’ into encryption, the electronic scrambling that protects e-mail, online transactions and other communications. Representative Holt, a physicist, said Friday that he believed the NSA was overreaching and could hurt American interests, including the reputations of American companies whose products the agency may have altered or influenced. ‘We pay them to spy,’ Mr. Holt said. ‘But if in the process they degrade the security of the encryption we all use, it’s a net national disservice.'”
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