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On the recordMay 20, 2015
I thank the Senator for that question. I think there is a new sort of political rhetoric attacking encryption, but I think there will be more efforts. This article is from about a year ago, but I think what is going to happen from this--and what I have been hearing from people--is there is ultimately going to be encryption that is not housed by any company. They are going to have encryption--the only way to get to the encryption is through the individual. This is being done because the government has overplayed their hand. Because the government has been such a bully on this, companies are going to continue to get further and further away. What they are going to do is the encryption will only be in control of the user. When that happens, the government is not getting any information at all. So they are taking a tool that probably has been useful to a certain degree--and I don't mind if we are doing it through warrants and specific extradition--but I think they are pushing companies so hard that I think encryption is going to be put in a place where even the company cannot get to it.
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Rand Paul
Republican · Kentucky

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