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Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT by uptown on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:34AM (#23639923)
Which is why the U.S. government routes a copy of the traffic through servers hosted in a friendly ally's country, then do whatever you want with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYNXVgYhPOc&feature=emb_logo

General Alexander was very precise in his choice of words when he repeatedly stated "in the United States". What went unasked was whether these operations take-place against U.S. citizens outside of the borders of the United States.

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Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT by monocasa on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:54AM (#23640120)
And even then he was lying. They had tapped google's inter datacenter connections for instance.
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Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT by uptown on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:12AM (#23640301)
"not wittingly" /s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsmo0hUWJ08

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Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT by chungus_khan on Thursday June 25, 2020 @11:11AM (#23641626)
Plus even when they do need a warrant, it doesn't do much good when there is literally a closed-access secret court specifically for handling surveillance requests which very rarely denies said requests and has a known history of enabling abuse.
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