In one of the most public confrontations of a top U.S. intelligence official by Silicon Valley in recent years, a senior Yahoo Inc. official peppered the National Security Agency director, Adm. Mike Rogers, at a conference on Monday over digital spying. <\/p>\n
The exchange came during a question and answer session at a daylong summit on cybersecurity hosted by the think tank New America. Mr. Rogers spent an hour at the conference answering a range of questions about his agencys practices and the global cyber threat. <\/p>\n
The tense exchange began when Alex Stamos, Yahoos chief information-security officer, asked Mr. Rogers if Yahoo should acquiesce to requests from Saudi Arabia, China, Russia, France and other countries to build a backdoor in some of their systems that would allow the countries to spy on certain users. <\/p>\n
It sounds like you agree with [Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James] Comey that we should be building defects into the encryption in our products so that the US government can decrypt, Mr. Stamos said, according to a transcript of the exchange compiled by the Just Security blog. <\/p>\n
That would be your characterization, Mr. Rogers said, cutting the Yahoo executive off. <\/p>\n
Mr. Stamos was trying to argue that if Yahoo gave the NSA access to this information, other countries could try and compel the company to provide the same access to data. <\/p>\n
Mr. Rogers said he believed that it is achievable to create a legal framework that allows the NSA to access encrypted information without upending corporate security programs.He declined to provide more details. <\/p>\n
Well, do you believe we should build backdoors for other countries? Mr. Stamos continued? <\/p>\n
My position is hey, look, I think that were lying that this isnt technically feasible, Mr. Rogers replied. <\/p>\n
He said the framework would have to be worked out ahead of time by policy makers not the NSA. <\/p>\n
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