Apple, Google, and Microsoft: weakening encryption lets the bad guys in

    Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, Twitter, Facebook, and 56 other technology companies have decided to stand together to reject calls saying that the encryption would be exploited by the bad guys. The encryption is security used to stop criminals from getting information on people and stealing their identities and getting people's bank account numbers and draining their bank accounts.  The Information Technology Industry councils chief Dean Garfield said "weakening encryption or creating backdoors to encrypted devices and data for use by the good guys would actually create vulnerabilities to be exploited by the bad guys, which would almost certainly cause serious physical financial harm across our society and our economy." Security experts have said that a man is crazy because he thinks that encrypted messaging apps should be banned.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/23/apple-google-microsoft-weakening-encryption-back-doors