Former NSA Chief Urges U.S.-Silicon Valley Deal on Encryption
Keith Alexander says a privacy-security balance can be found.
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The U.S. government and Silicon Valley need to find common ground over concerns about encryption before another significant terrorist attack raises the stakes for each side, the former head of the U.S. National Security Agency said.
''Right now, we have an opportunity to do this in an unemotional manner,'' Keith Alexander, the NSA’s former director, said in an interview to air April 10 on Bloomberg TV’s Studio 1.0. ''We should take that opportunity and solve these problems to the best of our ability. It won’t be perfect. But get reasonable people to the table.''