Bipartisan, Bicameral Group Urges Cross-Chamber Phone Call Encryption
Congress should encrypt phone calls between chambers to protect against foreign surveillance, a bipartisan group wrote Tuesday. Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Mike Rounds, R-S.D., and Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., led 20 lawmakers in the letter to the sergeant-at-arms and…
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the chief administrative officer. Calls within the Senate are encrypted, but calls between chambers are “vulnerable to being tapped by hackers and foreign spies,” they said.