Reject federal proposal to require backdoor to encryption

Federal law enforcement officials have long lamented the challenges that encryption of digital information pose to law enforcement investigation and have pushed in various ways for the creation of “backdoors” or other mechanisms to bypass encryption. New federal legislation from a trio of Republicans seeks to make this bad idea into reality.
Late last month, Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, introduced the Lawful Access