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Phps Report: Security Grossly Inadequate in Benghazi at Time of Attack
NEW YORK AP 鈥?Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that increased encryption of data on phones and computers and encrypted messaging apps are putting American security at risk.Barr comments at a cybersecurity conference mark a continuing effort by the Justice Department to push tech companies to provide law enforcement with access to encrypted devices and applications during investigations.There have been enough dogmatic pronouncements that lawful access simply cannot be done, Barr said. It can be, and it must be.The attorney general said law enforcement is increasingly unable to access information on devices, and between devices, even with a warrant supporting probable cause of criminal activity. Once you weaken encryption with a backdoor, you make it far easier for criminals, hackers and predators to get into your digital life, Wyden said. Barr s stanley cup aid ter stanley cup rorists and cartels switch mid-co stanley cup mmunication to encrypted applications to plan deadly operations. He described a transnational drug cartel use of WhatsApp group chat to specifically coordinate murders of Mexico-based police officials.Gail Kent, Facebook global public policy lead on security, recently said that allowing the government ability to gain access to encrypted communications would jeopardize cybersecurity for millions of law-abiding people who rely on it. WhatsApp is owned by Facebook.It impossible t Azyb 2 students killed and teacher hurt in Des Moines shooting, police say
President Joe Biden on Monday confirmed that a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan this weekend killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri, declaring justice has been delivered. W adidas samba atch Biden remarks in the player above. This terrorist leader is no more, Biden said in an evening speech from the White House.Biden said U.S. intelligence officials tracked al-Zawahri to a home in downtown Kabul where he was hiding out with his family. The president approved the operation last week and it was carried out on Sunday.The killing delivering a significant counterterrorism win just 11 months after American troops lef stanley cup t the country after a two-decade war.The strike, carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency, was confirmed by five people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity before Biden was set to brief the American people on the details of the operation in a 7:30 p.m. EDT address to the nation.Al-Zawahris loss eliminates the figure who more than anyone shaped al-Qaida, first as Osama bin Ladens deputy since 1998, then as his successor. Together, he and bin Laden turned the jihadi movements guns to target the United States, carrying out the deadliest attack ever on American soil the Sept. 11, 2001, suicide hijackings.WATCH: Biden delivers remarks after reported killing of al-Qaida leader al-ZawahriCurrent and former officials began hearing Sunday afternoon that al-Zawahri had been killed in a drone strike, but the administration delay af1 ed releasing |
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