Government Officials Now Want to Surveil Your PlayStation 4 Because Terrorism

Reports indicate ISIS may have used encrypted services in order to plan their attacks in Paris and Beirut. This has led officials to use this tragedy as an opportunity to argue why companies should create backdoors into their programs for government use.

Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell said in an interview with CBS’ Face the Nation this weekend, “I think what we’re going to learn is that these guys are communicating via these encrypted apps, this commercial encryption, which is very difficult or nearly impossible for governments to break, and the producers of which don’t produce the keys necessary for law enforcement to read the encrypted messages.”