Would you force him to give law enforcement a key to encrypted technology by making it law? - I would not want to go to that point.
I would hope that given the extraordinary capacities that the tech community has and the legitimate needs and questions from law enforcement, that there could be a Manhattan-like project.
Something that would bring the government and the tech communities together to see they're not adversaries.
They've got to be partners.
It doesn't do anybody any good.
If terrorists can move toward encrypted communication that no law enforcement agency can break into before or after, there must be some way.
I don't know enough about the technology, Martha. - So there's Hillary Clinton proposing a Manhattan Project for the internet That's what she's going to do as president.
Of course, it's interesting that she goes with the Manhattan Project, considering that was one of the most complex intelligence and security operations during the Second World War.
Of course, it created the most lethal weapon of mass destruction.
But it's also going to be really awful for the Internet.
But it's interesting because in 2011, the AFP actually reported that the State Department under Hillary Clinton was actively working with Arab countries to help them evade security forces.
And this was coming from Michael Posner.
He was the Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Human Rights and Labor.
They were talking about sponsoring efforts to help activists gain access to technology that circumvents government firewalls, secures...
Telephone text and voice messages and would help prevent attacks on their websites.
So basically they were giving these activists all of these tools to circumvent their government, circumvent their totalitarian regimes.
They actually spent $50 million in two years to help develop these technologies to help activists protect them from arrest and prosecution by authoritarian governments.
So clearly encryption is okay when you're trying to topple Somebody else's government.