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Re:How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on c... by ceejayoz on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @01:24PM (#22301011)
> For one, the government can't compel you to do work. That's slavery.

Slavery's perfectly legal. The 13th Amendment:

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...

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Re:How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on c... by criddell on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @02:50PM (#22302058)
Are you suggesting the TrueCrypt authors had been duly convicted of a crime?
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Re:How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on c... by ceejayoz on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @05:38PM (#22303750)
I am not. I am pointing out that the Constitutional provisions preventing slavery have a loophole big enough to drive an aircraft carrier through.
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Re:How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on c... by brewdad on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @04:06PM (#22302849)
He's saying they easily could have been.

See: Three Felonies a Day

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