The two US lawmakers behind legislation requiring the tech sector to build backdoors in encrypted products are playing the terrorism card. In an editorial Thursday in the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) stoke fears that our personal safety is tied to their proposed legislation.
The pair cite what they called an “islamic State-inspired attack last year in Garland, Texas” and the non terror-related murder of a Louisiana pregnant woman named Brittney Mills.
