can better withstand intrusions and denial of service attacks as well as limit access to awe thebt kauthenticated and users. requiring companies to provide back doors for law enforcement or national security hurts both individual privacy and our nation's overall security. moreover, the security benefits are questionable at best because sophisticated terrorists and criminals will simply use international products for more secure, less convenient alternatives. technology and policy scholars are actively debating the merits of deidentification and anonmization techniques. the information is critical because privacy rules only apply to identifiable data. technology scholars emphasize that there is no way to mathematically prove an anonmized data set, that it can not be reidentified. in contrast, privacy scholars -- policy scholars believe that anonmy saization provides real practical protection to most of the people most of the time. car which the locks on your door at home are pretty good but not good enough to keep a determined intruder at bay. that's the idea behind anonmization. there is some cri