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Computer security is a very important thing. To determine the required computer security computer security tips. Computer security awareness for everyone who always relate to computers and the internet is very important. Especially for those who use the internet for business and online transactions.
Computer security primarily needed encryption data security in dealing with its partners through the internet. For example, messaging application with chat or by email.
Privacy Security from every person in the surf is a human right. It takes an understanding of the elements of computer network security, including the security of personal computers.
Encryption computer security ever leaked by the NSA makes the public very surprised. Many Americans opposed to leaks of personal information by the NSA through the industrial giants such as Facebook and Google.

Encryption, is the process of changing information in such a way as to make it unreadable by anyone except those possessing special knowledge (usually referred to as a "key") that allows them to change the information back to its original, readable form.
Encryption is important because it allows you to securely protect data that you don't want anyone else to have access to. Businesses use it to protect corporate secrets, governments use it to secure classified information, and many individuals use it to protect personal information to guard against things like identity theft.
Espionage uses encryption to securely protect folder contents, which could contain emails, chat histories, tax information, credit card numbers, or any other sensitive information. This way, even if your comptuer is stolen that data is safe. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/09/obama-encryption_n_7542070.html
A collection of tech industry giants like Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft, as well as civil liberties organizations and Internet security experts, sent a letter to President Obama warning of the unintended consequences of any policy meant to weaken the encryption technologies that protect Internet communications.
Obama administration officials have pushed the companies to find ways to let law enforcement bypass encryption to investigate illegal activities including terrorism threats, but not weaken it in a way that would let criminals and computer hackers penetrate the security wall.
While he recognized tech companies' efforts to protect Americans' civil liberties, Earnest, responding to a reporter's question, added that the companies "would not want to be in a position in which their technology is being deployed to aid and abet somebody who's planning to carry out an act of violence."
 
Critics in the technology industry are concerned that a back door for law enforcement in the United States would be a back door for everyone, including other governments and hackers. One Yahoo executive likened the proposal to “drilling a hole in the windshield.”
Google, Facebook, Apple and other tech companies have been moving to encrypt customers’ communications so that the government cannot monitor them without going directly to the customer. The companies’ efforts have been criticized by some in law enforcement who argue the toughened encryption will stymie their investigations.

The White House is weighing a proposal in which parts of the key to unlock digital encryption would be held by the government, and part would be held by the companies. That system was articulated by Michael S. Rogers, director of the National Security Agency, in a recent speech at Princeton University. He called for a compromise in the form of “key escrow,” where the government would hold onto part of the encryption key and companies would hold onto the other, and it would be secured with “multiple locks — big locks.”
But technologists say such a solution simply does not work. The White House’s own handpicked National Security Agency review group members, several of whom signed the letter on Tuesday, also recommended that the government support efforts to advance strong encryption.

The letter was signed by more than 140 tech companies and dozens of civil liberty, human rights and press freedom groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Human Rights Watch and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. It was also signed by 60 security and policy experts including Whitfield Diffie, one of the co-inventors of the public key cryptography commonly used on the Internet today, and the former White House counterterrorism czar Richard A. Clarke, who was one of a handful of experts the White House asked to review its security policies after the revelations by Edward J. Snowden.

But security experts have long argued that the nature of encryption is such that there can be no middle ground between encryption which is unbreakable to all, including law enforcement, or encryption which contains some sort of flaw that can be used by anyone who knows of its existence, whether or not they are law enforcement.

An increasing number of communications products have “end-to-end” encryption, meaning even the company that produces the software can’t break the encryption on messages sent between its customers. Apple’s iMessage network and Facebook’s WhatsApp both use end-to-end encryption, for instance, while Google’s competing Hangouts product does not.
The letter argued that “strong encryption is the cornerstone of the modern information economy’s security,” and that the government should “fully support and not undermine efforts to create encryption standards in any way subvert, undermine, weaken or make vulnerable” commercial software.

Tech companies should “prevent encryption above all else”.

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