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Re:Interpol plans to condemn encryption spread, citing preda... by atq2119 on Monday November 18, 2019 @04:41AM (#21563001)
Encryption also provides immense benefits to society. Modern commerce couldn't work without encryption. Companies wouldn't be able to protect their trade secrets. And so on.

Plenty of non-technical people think that they can have their cake and eat it by giving a backdoor to "the government". Which government though? The one of Burkina Faso? The fact is that backdoored encryption is broken encryption.

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Re:Interpol plans to condemn encryption spread, citing preda... by matz1 on Monday November 18, 2019 @09:11AM (#21564404)
That's also depends on the society. Obviously it wouldn't benefit the interpol in this case.

For companies, they would have to change their business model that is not relying on trade secret, I would even argue that not having to spend time, money or effort to protect trade secret is a benefit.

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