I was surprised to read that Michael Hayden, former NSA and CIA Chief, and I actually agree on one thing - no back doors in technology. Note, we disagree on waterboarding and mass surveillance of American's phone records (he is for both and I am against both).
When Hayden said in an article in 9to5Mac by Ben Lovejoy titled:
Former NSA and CIA chief says Apple is right on the bigger issue of encryption back door
"Hayden said that while he would have loved a back door into encrypted devices while he was running the NSA, the problem – as I argued – is that others would inevitably gain access to it.
“When you step back and look at the whole question of American security and safety writ large, we are a safer, more secure nation without back doors,” he says. With them, “a lot of other people would take advantage of it.”"
We have seen this movie before with the Clipper chip. For those who do not remember - below is from wikipedia:
"The Clipper chip was a chipset that was developed and promoted by the United States National Security Agency[1] (NSA) as an encryption device, with a built-in backdoor, intended to be adopted by telecommunications companies for voice transmission. It was announced in 1993 and by 1996 was entirely defunct."
The image below is also from the same wikipedia article on the Clipper chip. Where the text along with this image stated:
"RSA Security campaigned against the Clipper chip backdoor in the so-called Crypto Wars, with this poster being the most well-remember icon of that debate."
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