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Re:UK surveillance powers bill could force startups to bake ... by coreyp_1 on Friday March 11, 2016 @05:48AM (#11265831)
#3. People who receive the key from #1 (in the future).

This may be next year's elected official, or the official elected in 10 years, or the spy who will work in the office 7 years and 2 months from now. Can you guarantee the intentions and actions of every single future government employee and official? This, in my opinion, is the biggest threat!

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Re:UK surveillance powers bill could force startups to bake ... by jacquesm on Friday March 11, 2016 @05:57AM (#11265864)
You can't even guarantee the intentions and actions of the government in its entirety, good governments have historically been succeeded by bad ones in roughly the same way that rain eventually follows sunshine and the other way around. To assume infinite stability of government is a major mistake.
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