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Re:More encryption means less privacy by michael_fine on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @02:57PM (#12256942)
To be fair, the NSA did have a very high profile incided where they were considering legally mandating a physical backdoor, called the Clipper Chip, until it was proven that the chip had a gaping vulnerability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

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Re:More encryption means less privacy by mike_hearn on Thursday August 11, 2016 @03:43AM (#12266762)
That's kind of proving my point, isn't it? They reacted to the vulnerability (decades ago) by not deploying it, and presumably learning some lessons.
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