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Re:Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' by maximente on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:17PM (#22113256)
one thing that needs to be accounted for is that, IIRC, we just recently had US AG Barr make a stink about encryption based on Facebook tech (either WhatsApp/Messenger i believe) being some anti-law enforcement issue.

does the theory suggest that US DoJ does not know how to exploit these backdoors, but other agencies (CIA/NSA, foreign intel services) do?

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Re:Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' by BoorishBears on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:20PM (#22113284)
There's no incentive to not publicly make a stink about encryption, even if they have backdoors.

If anything there's incentive to do so even if they do, in creating plausible deniability.

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