Jonathan Evans said the terrorist threat to Britain was a “generational problem”, and suggested the Westminster Bridge attack in March may have had an energising effect on extremists. With encryption, that data is scrambled in such a way that it can only be read by someone with the right key. His comments came after Amber Rudd, the home secretary, argued that internet companies were not doing enough to tackle extremism online. “While understandably there is a very acute concern about counter-terrorism, it is not the only threat that we face. But the threat of Islamist terrorism was likely to remain at the fore for 20-30 years, he warned.

Source: The Guardian August 11, 2017 07:18 UTC