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Ransomware attack is why we can't have security backdoors, say privacy advocates

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"What happened this week won’t be lost on judges in the future should the government again try to get tech companies to build backdoor access into programs,  said Kristen Eichensehr, a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles with an expertise in national security law and cybersecurity.

“What we’ve seen happen with WannaCry lends credence to that — and certainly any court is going to take it into account. The government has shown that it itself is persistently incapable of keeping its tools secure,” she said."

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