Encryption backdoors will make us all more vulnerable

The author has written 29 technical books and is Managing Partner of Ascent Solutions, which provides marketing services to tech sector companies 
In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, one of the memes being perpetuated by “security professionals” is that the terrorists used encrypted communications, enabling them to plan and coordinate their activities without raising suspicion among the intelligence community.
Now there is a knee-jerk reaction among politicians in Washington