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Re:The secret Uganda deal that has brought NSO to the brink ... by filoeleven on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @08:53PM (#29657802)
Half of those services will happily share all of that person’s data when handed a warrant. Some don’t even require that much.

On the flipside, a snooper will always have to do a monumental and maybe impossible amount of work to break a one-time pad by chipping away at the security that surrounds it.

What makes security tech fundamentally different? Why should it be easy to break? A warrant lets someone search my belongings; it does not compel me to give law enforcement the information they are seeking.

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Re:The secret Uganda deal that has brought NSO to the brink ... by dotancohen on Thursday December 23, 2021 @03:37AM (#29659891) 

  > A warrant lets someone search my belongings; it does not compel me
  > to give law enforcement the information they are seeking.
This is the issue. An investigator's limited permission to search a specific aspect of one's belongings does not infringe upon one's right to be secure in the remainder of his belongings. At least, not in the context of nations which have explicitly granted that right.
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