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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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