Barr is unqualified to make the decision

Democratic lawmakers call on Barr to stop opposing encryption

A pair of Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr on Thursday urging him to stop government requests for encryption backdoors, which allow the government to obtain certain user information from tech companies.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) argued that the Justice Department's push to limit such encryption "is not just hypocritical, but it has been repeatedly criticized by cryptographers and other leading cybersecurity experts."
“We urge you to stop demanding that private companies purposefully weaken their encryption for the false pretense of protecting children," the lawmakers wrote.
Barr has been an outspoken critic of encryption, which protects messages from surveillance and makes companies that use it unable to access the contents of users' messages.

Let me explain something to the dufas squad at the White House.



If we cannot have secure encryption at the source, then we cannot have safe drones.  No safe drones in peace time makes us vulnerable to terrorism anywhere, including Barr's office. The NSA has no possible means to police the drones and they are setting the USA up for disaster.

If we have SecureID then we can verify that a drone is running safe code and obeying the law. This is true everywhere. With SecureID we can verify and prove that only authorized agents can modify data. The NSA is goinbg to get caught, a drone will trash the White House and the NSA will have no clue think the drone was simply making a delivery.  With SecureID, the NSA can verify any drone in the area by pinging it.

The NSA is too incompetent to trust, techies need to enforce this issue, break the law if need be. We are under a constant terrorist threat as long as the bonehead NSA is involved. When an explosive drone hits Apple headquarters, Tim Cook can blame himself for not doing his job, for not propagating AppleID everywhere.

Let me explain something to the Keynesians. If we do not proagate SecureID to everyone then only the super wealthy will have the capability of hedging the Fed and inequality gets much worse, much worse inequality than even the primary dealer system causes.

Here is a good summary of the issue:

Public Key Infrastructure Explained | Everything you need to know

This article goes into internet security a bit, I propose one step farther:

Ultimately there is a central manager of key distribution, an entity that is self secure and this entity will be the only unsecured component.  The entity belongs in the foundry, the processors are all Spectre compatible. Security is guaranteed from the foundry to the processor. A processor can be checked on demand.  Once a secure spectra compatible processor is proved, then the rest of his article becomes much more valuable. We end up a with many methods, ad hoc and application specific, that use keys, not just the standard internet systems.