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Re:Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who ... by dsacco on Thursday January 25, 2018 @02:02PM (#16233504)
> I understood it as saying that it's possible to understand the technology, and even have a strong pro-encryption and pro-privacy stance, without believing that FBI as an institution is fundamentally corrupt or motivated by malice. There is an inherent tension between the FBI's mission, citizen's rights, and the nature of encryption, and it looks like that tension might never be fully resolved.

Yes, thank you. This explains my thinking more succinctly and clearly than I did :)

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Re:Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who ... by benchaney on Thursday January 25, 2018 @03:14PM (#16234178)
If that is actually your position, then you aren't a counterpoint to my original post.
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