FOR THIS TO WORK, IT’LL NEED STATUTORY DAMAGES AND A WAIVER OF OFFICIAL IMMUNITY: Legislation Seeks to Bar N.S.A. Tactic in Encryption. “After disclosures about the National Security Agency’s stealth campaign to counter Internet privacy protections, a congressman has proposed legislation that would prohibit the agency from installing ‘back doors’ into encryption, the electronic scrambling that protects e-mail, online transactions and other communications. Representative Rush D. Holt, a New Jersey Democrat who is also a physicist, said Friday that he believed the N.S.A. was overreaching and could hurt American interests, including the reputations of American companies whose products the agency may have altered or influenced.”