Technologists’ Submit Comments to the NSA Review Group

A distinguished group of 47 of the world’s leading technologists -- with extensive expertise in security, privacy, and cryptography -- submitted public comments to the National Security Agency (NSA) Review Group.

These technologists:

• emphasized the need for deep technical expertise in the work of the Review Group and, more generally, in oversight mechanisms for the NSA surveillance programs;
• described how the NSA’s efforts to subvert many forms of encryption online and to plant backdoors in secure communications products, standards, software, and hardware undermine security for everyone online; and,
• argued in an increasingly global information society, commitments to privacy and civil liberties necessarily must extend to non-US persons.