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Re:Attorney General Barr and Encryption by sq_ on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @12:03PM (#20696913)
I think most of us around here on HN and "tech people" in general understand that particular set of issues around encryption backdoors.

It seems to me that certain lawmakers and people like Barr either don't put the time in to understand or are willfully ignorant to further their own goals.

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Re:Attorney General Barr and Encryption by korethr on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @12:15PM (#20697023)
Supposedly Upton Sinclair said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

I think that applies here.

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Re:Attorney General Barr and Encryption by magashna on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @01:03PM (#20697511)
How about perfectly informed and extremely malicious?
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