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Re:Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who ... by dsjoerg on Thursday January 25, 2018 @01:50PM (#16233396)
You're misunderstanding the comment you're replying to. It concludes that "there must be a system of checks and balances". Are you saying that there shouldn't be?
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Re:Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who ... by MrLeap on Thursday January 25, 2018 @02:04PM (#16233530)
It looks like the parent was edited since I started typing my response, but I still think my response is appropriate for this new version.

There is no series of checks and balances you can wrap around breaking encryption that doesn't hurt a free society. How am I misunderstanding?

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