Weakening encryption would damage the UK's wider interests says former MI5 chief

John Leonard
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Weakening encryption would open the country up to more threats, says Jonathan Evans

Encryption is "very positive" in the context of the UK's commercial and national security interests and it would be a mistake to weaken it, according to Jonathan Evans, who was head of MI5 until 20...

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