The Pros And Cons Of Encrypted Systems

In this fast moving technology age, security is becoming more and more of a priority. With events like Edward Snowden leaking American government information, it is just further prove of the need for security. But what is the cost of this increase of security? From what I researched, security is the polar opposite of privacy. They are inversely proportional. For example because of nine-eleven, privacy while going on planes has drastically decreased because of more security in airports being increased. The goal of this paper is to determine whether or not the American government should be able to force back-doors in companies’ encrypted systems. The paper is broken down into three steps. These three steps come from Tavani’s “comprehensive strategy for approaching cyberethics issues.”
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The application of back-doors into encrypted systems is a morally controversial topic. The reason for the moral controversy is that encrypted systems are …show more content…
This poses a problem for the issue of back-doors in encrypted systems. This is because this information contained in these systems can travel to a number of countries at lighting speeds. It is basically like you traveling to multiple different countries and having to follow each of the different countries’ laws. And imagine further that you went so fast between these counties that you did not know whether or not you broke any of the different countries laws. This is a simple case of a policy vacuum. A policy vacuum is a gap in the law. This should be expected because obviously different countries laws contradict other countries’ laws. So in order to resolve this policy vacuum, the American government can’t ask a company or business sending encrypted data to other countries to provide a back-door in their encryption. Therefore, it would not be morally right for America to ask companies or individuals to provide back-doors in data that goes outside of