Criminals aren’t going dark, says Harvard study

For years now, the FBI has been warning legislators and CEOs about criminals “going dark” through encryption — and the responsibility of companies like Apple and Google to stop it from happening. But according to a new study from Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, that’s not what’s happening at all. Titled “Don’t Panic,” the paper unpacks the context of the recent debate around encryption, ultimately deciding that police are at little risk of being locked out of digital communications at large.