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The article is really about CEOs publicly arguing that security back doors are a bad idea. It's unfortunate that mainstream press seems to be conflating "encryption" and "security back doors", but here we are.

As to the argument in the article, are there other examples of non-Tim Cook CEOs of big tech companies saying anything like this?

"But the reality is if you put a back door in, that back door's for everybody, for good guys and bad guys"

The closest I've found was a letter from many companies [1] which says "introducing intentional vulnerabilities into secure products for the government’s use will make those products less secure against other attackers." Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and many others were signatories to that letter. So it certainly sounds like the companies might feel that way.

[1] https://static.newamerica.org/attachments/3138--113/Encrypti...