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Re:Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.? by jedberg on Saturday September 28, 2019 @12:56PM (#21101421)
>What lawmakers do or don't say is just noise.

Back in the day, it was illegal to export "good" encryption. There was nothing stopping it from happening technically, just like there is nothing stopping you from stealing from a convince store, except for the threat of enforcement.

But the threat of enforcement can have a strong chilling effect.

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Re:Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.? by TheRealPomax on Saturday September 28, 2019 @01:05PM (#21101471)
Bad analogy - exporting "good" encryption was illegal and while for individuals that was basically irrelevant, _companies_ would absolute follow that law. The analogy is not between "you stealing from a convenience store", it's "you running a company that has a known practice of robbing convenience stores". It's so incredibly illegal, you're not going to. There is no realistic hypothetical in which that decision would even remotely make sense.
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