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The encryption fight between the West Wing and the West Coast enters a new round today.

The Washington Post says over 140 high-tech types have signed an open letter urging the Obama

administration to stop demanding backdoors into encrypted communications.

That letter, signed by Apple, Google, and a whole host of others, goes public today, though the Post had a look at it on Monday.

In the letter, the piece says a coalition of tech firms, security experts, and others appeal to the White House to protect

privacy rights as it considers how to address law enforcement's need to access data that is increasingly

encrypted.

The bottom line from all of the parties, to build a back door for the U.S. government would be to provide

a door others will try to sneak through or breakthrough.

Perhaps most telling the piece says three out of five of the people President Obama put on a review group in 2013 to assess technology policies in the fully support and not undermine efforts to create encryption standards and not in any

ways subvert, undermine, weaken, or make vulnerable commercial software.

While the post has seen the whole letter as of this writing it has not been published

it seems likely there will be more coverage of it here tomorrow.

Two notes from Wall Street on Monday predicting the best of times and the

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