Defense Secretary Says He Is For Encryption And Against Back Doors

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter called for peace between Silicon Valley and the federal government amid a legal battle between Apple and the Justice Department over a locked iPhone used during the San Bernardino shootings.

“The only way we are going to get a good solution is by working together,” Carter told the audience at the RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. “To work our ways through our problems.”