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Re:Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, ... by kelseydh on Friday March 18, 2016 @09:48AM (#11311728)
As Max Weber would say, the government has a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical violence.
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Re:Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, ... by spacehome on Friday March 18, 2016 @11:22AM (#11312350)
That's not a very insightful definition because it pushes the question to what is "legitimate".
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Re:Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, ... by marssaxman on Saturday March 19, 2016 @01:19PM (#11319366)
Some governments may claim such a monopoly, but in the most parts of the USA, at least, private citizens have not completely delegated their right of self-defence through physical violence.
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