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Re:Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck? by asdsa5325 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @09:02PM (#16750957)
The person is wrong. It's a private company that has the patent, the company works with the government. I don't know why he implies the government is involved in the patent suit, they are not.
Re:Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck? by Sephr on Thursday April 05, 2018 @07:13PM (#16769611)
"It's not too hard to imagine…" isn't exactly the same as saying "It's true that…". I don't have hard evidence, but it's not hard to imagine VirnetX being manipulated behind the scenes by the US government. Similar circumstances have happened in the past.