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Re:The Encryption Debate Isn't About Stopping Terrorists, It... by icelancer on Monday April 09, 2018 @04:04PM (#16796486)
>> Can we, as a people, be trusted with this level of autonomy, power, and security?

A philosophical question is one worth considering for fun, but it has little practical value. There is no way to stop people from using mathematics to protect their privacy and their data, and any debate around that come from people who are innumerate.

We can discuss the should/could stuff as a matter of interest to waste taxpayers' dollars and time, I suppose, but that's not what lawmakers generally try to discuss. They want to figure out how to do the impossible, or at least lie about it.

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Re:The Encryption Debate Isn't About Stopping Terrorists, It... by fjsolwmv on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @11:09AM (#16801894)
It's not impossible, you are confusing math with opsec I reality. Stop it. Pretending it's possible to encrypt effectively is going to give the government an excuse to apply rubber hose decryption under cover of deniability.
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Re:The Encryption Debate Isn't About Stopping Terrorists, It... by icelancer on Friday April 13, 2018 @05:57PM (#16834231)
>> Pretending it's possible to encrypt effectively

Is not something I did.

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