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Re:The Belgian government has removed ‘backdoor requirement’... by piaste on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @11:32AM (#29638984)
> If they can get their hands on a governmental private key, which is unlikely.

But those private keys aren't going to be created by the government. They will be created by Facebook, Signal, Telegram etc., who will then hand over one of them to my government, one to yours, and one to each and every government that makes a similar law, from Argentina to Zimbabwe. And they could just as easily hand over another to <insert billionaire or other non-governmental figure you dislike here>.

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Re:The Belgian government has removed ‘backdoor requirement’... by 1337shadow on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @02:00PM (#29640736)
Ahah! Exactly, you have figured what I would have requested to specify in this bill!
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