Security News > 2017 > April > WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee opposes encryption backdoors (Help Net Security)

As the de-facto inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s opinions on things like online privacy and encryption backdoors should carry a lot more weight than those of most people. Why encryption backdoors are a no-no As he accepted this year’s A.M. Turing Award (aka the “Nobel Prize of Computing”), Berners-Lee noted that governments’ wish and intent to weaken encryption by forcing companies to create backdoors into the technology is a really bad … More →

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