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Re:Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands by vlod on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @11:05AM (#37237186)
The same could be said about encryption.
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Re:Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands by xboxnolifes on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @06:25PM (#37242668)
Except it can't, since everyone regularly uses and benefits from encryption.
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Re:Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands by vlod on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @07:04PM (#37243050)
Specifically the state likes to say "We need access to encryption private keys because of terrorists or to save the kids. If you don't have anything to hide, there's no reason you'd oppose this". [0]

So if a lot of bad people pay for things with big sums of cash, then why would you oppose this limit, unless you're a bad person. Meh.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/08/whatsapp-...

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