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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by tome on Sunday August 25, 2024 @04:04AM (#41345416)
Perhaps you got thrown by the double negative?

> I don't believe there are any western nations that want non-locally-backdoored messaging of any sort

means

> I believe every western nation wants all messaging to be locally-backdoored

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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by andrewshadura on Sunday August 25, 2024 @06:03AM (#41346063)
No, it doesn't?
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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by tome on Sunday August 25, 2024 @03:29PM (#41350483)
Thanks, yes, I should have said

> I believe no western nation wants any messaging to be non-locally-backdoored

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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by tome on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @09:41AM (#41367421)
Actually, this seems to be the clearest way of getting rid of negatives:

> I believe all western nations want all messaging to be free of remote backdoors

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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by froggit on Thursday August 29, 2024 @05:32PM (#41395506)
> > I believe all western nations want all messaging to be free of remote backdoors

!=

>> I believe every western nation wants all messaging to be locally-backdoored

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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by tome on Saturday August 31, 2024 @03:53PM (#41411457)
Correct. andrewshadura pointed that out above, too. The former is equivalent to the original formulation that I was trying to simplify.
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