---
date: '2017-04-20'
title: 'DHS Boss Calls For More Fear, Less Encryption'
description: "This is wonderful stuff if you're a fan of authoritarianism. Shut up and show your support. It's a message that's been sent several times by the new president. Now, it's being echoed by his top officials."
tags: ['politics', 'security', 'privacy']
---

**[Techdirt:](https://www.techdirt.com/2017/04/20/dhs-boss-calls-more-fear-less-encryption/)**

> This is wonderful stuff if you're a fan of authoritarianism. Shut up and show your support. It's a message that's been sent several times by the new president. Now, it's being echoed by his top officials.

Yet another ill-considered power grab in the name of safety.<!-- excerpt -->

> Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
