# Encryption **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 18, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/encryption/737857 "2015-11-18T02:20:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/encryption/737857/1 "2015-11-18T02:20:31Z")
I had CNN on earlier today, and they kept going on about how U.S. Intelligence agencies can’t decrypt messages on phones and whatnot. They mentioned it so often I thought ‘The lady doth protest too much, methinks.’ AFAIK, they’re not lying. But if I were a spy, I wouldn’t tell the opposition, ‘Hey, guess what? I can read what you wrote!’ (Which may be why Coventry wasn’t warned about the 11/14/1940 raid.) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/encryption/737857/2 "2015-11-18T02:24:55Z")
I can’t see what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/encryption/737857/3 "2015-11-18T02:26:07Z")
They’ve been going for so long (years) about how tech companies should build backdoors and points of failure in their software to let the authorities look in that I, too, am :dubious: about how big a threat this is or if it is indeed a huge reverse-psych con.