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Re:The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton by userbinator on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @09:23AM (#32237918)
It is a tool, just like nuclear weapons are a weapon.

I'm definitely not on the "ban all crypto" side, but I see why the governments are in support of that, and for the longest time, strong crypto was (and still is?) classified as a munition; it's very powerful.

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Re:The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton by raxxorraxor on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @11:06AM (#32239362)
Well, I think governments are mostly concerned with people having secrets. Who would need secrets who isn't a terrorist? That it was classified as munition is probably more due to old war hawks and how they saw encryption employed.
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