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Re:FBI Director Comments on San Bernardino Matter by autoreleasepool on Monday February 22, 2016 @01:23AM (#11148937)
> Look at history. The encryption the Nazis had created helped them commit terrible acts of war and it was the backdoor the Allies discovered that helped bring justice to them.

Are you suggesting the Nazi's were the only ones to use encryption during World War II?

You forgot to mention at least 9 other nations (including the USA)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_cryptography

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Re:FBI Director Comments on San Bernardino Matter by FreedomToCreate on Monday February 22, 2016 @01:28AM (#11148955)
My point is to show how encryption in the wrong hands can also have terrible consequences.

This is a two way street.

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Re:FBI Director Comments on San Bernardino Matter by autoreleasepool on Monday February 22, 2016 @01:34AM (#11148966)
> encryption in the wrong hands can also have terrible consequences.

So can literally anything in the wrong hands, though.

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Re:FBI Director Comments on San Bernardino Matter by dmix on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @12:31AM (#11156824)
Cars, cellphones, fertilizer, kitchen knives, baseball bats, apple seeds, etc. Encryption is only special because of the power dynamic that shifts in the average citizens favour.
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