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Tech companies have long argued that opening up back doors to surveillance agencies inevitably means that other actors will exploit them, weakening security.
The Information Technology Industry Council's chief executive, Dean Garfield, said: "Weakening security with the aim of advancing security simply does not make sense".
And a representative of many of the large tech companies recently remarked: "Weakening security with the aim of advancing security simply does not make sense".
The EFF says it found strong support almost across the board for opposing government-mandated backdoors, with 21 of the 24 companies evaluated taking a public stance against weakening security and endanger user privacy via backdoors.
Which means this is an opportune moment for the technology and security industry to get in touch with EU politicians to reiterate the point that weakening security for all Internet users is not a sensible nor proportionate response to national security concerns.
In order to qualify for this star companies need to have blogged about their support for not deliberately weakening security, or detailed their pro-encryption position in a transparency report, or by publicly signing a coalition letter, or though another "public, official, written format".
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Apple has been unusually vocal about its opposition to government plans to weaken security on either side of the Atlantic.
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Prosperity continued, but the withdrawals of troops by Magnus Maximus in 383 and again at the end of the century by Stilicho weakened security.
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