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The Cybersecurity 202: Cybersecurity experts slam child protection bill that risks rolling back encryption

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""This bill… is clearly a ‘backdoor to a backdoor’ to encryption,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society.

“Experts agree that backdoors could be exploited by bad actors and that no backdoor could guarantee only law-abiding officials have access,” said Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project."