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Ishan Mehta

is a Policy Advisor for the National Security Program at Third Way.
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Bad Idea: Encryption Backdoors

There are a myriad of steps the federal government could take to improve its ability to investigate cybercrime and cases that involve digital evidence. But it is pursuing technologically inadvisable solutions that would lessen everyone’s security and seriously jeopardize our national security.

December 19, 2019 — Ishan Mehta, Mieke Eoyang, sdaniels
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