“Presidential candidates from both parties came together at the weekend to call for beefed-up government surveillance programs in the wake of recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California.
“The candidates did not agree, however, on what kind of surveillance – new dragnet metadata collection, tools to fight encryption or some even more powerful capability – was needed.
“The debate broke out as the contrasting methods of communication – and possibly encryption – used by attackers in the two assaults demonstrated the difficulty of detecting and interrupting nascent plots, whether involving suspects known to authorities, as in Paris, or unknown, as in California.”
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