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They can make refusal to decrypt a federal felony.


As it already is in some cases in the United Kingdom. Granted, their freedom of speech protections aren't as great as ours, but if Congress really wanted to, what's to stop them from making a Consitutional ammendment that declares encryption keys as not being protected under the Fifth Ammendment?





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