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Re:Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who ... by Spooky23 on Thursday January 25, 2018 @01:30PM (#16233212)
A person's papers and correspondence is similarly sacred under the US Constitution.

The problem is that digital paper isn't paper, and while you can be charged with a felony for bypassing a computer's access controls, the law doesn't respect those controls at all. Your electronic documents have to be in your home or in your direct control to be protected.

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Re:Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who ... by wu-ikkyu on Thursday January 25, 2018 @01:56PM (#16233462)
>Your electronic documents have to be in your home or in your direct control to be protected.

Which is funny, because paper correspondance does not have to be in your home or in your direct control to be protected.

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