this push to reconsider. i know it didn t work last time but this is a different environment since last friday. interesting that hillary clinton brought on there is onus on internet service providers like apple and google to join in encryption debate and talking about helping the public sector, the government keep us safe. she didn t actually talk about throwing her weight back behind the metadata program and section 215 of the patriot act with the u.s.a. freedom act or whatever the watered down version is i imagine is going to be the status quo. but it certainly this revives the argument and it really does it is a question, judge, if they are not able to listen to everything and they are actually just looking for patterns and they are not interested in people, how many people, you know, are are calling their bookie or having an affair but they are really trying to see what is going on in a nick of time with someone who is
available messaging apps like sure spot and kick. this is not your grandfather s al qaeda. we are look for needles that are increasingly invisible to us. reporter: a person sends a message like i want to fight for isis over the web. encryption software scrambles that message and only the ref sip yant with unscramble it. the st. louis is to allow law enforcement access to encrypted messages with a search warrant. tech companies are resisting, concerned they will lose business from privacy concerned customers. silicon valley says it lost tens of thousands of dollars overseas. the encryption debate is a trade. how much more secure do you want to make americans and their
for needles increasingly invisible because of end to end encryption. a person send a message. such as i want to fight for isis over the web. encryption software scrambles the message. only a recipient using the correct key can unscramble it to see its original meaning. the solution argues the fbi and many lawmakers is to allow law enforcement access to encrypted messages with a search warrant. tech companies however are resisting. concerned they ll lose business from privacy conscious customers. silicon valley estimates it lost tens of billions of dollars to overseas competitors following revelations of mass surveillance by the nsa. the encryption debate is really about a trade how much more secure do you want to make americans and their personal data versus how much opportunity do you want to create for terrorists and other criminals to communicate safely? reporter: there are several groups lined up against the kind of access the fbi is seeking.