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It's more like, if the police identify an exploitable weakness in a bank vault, they tell the bank. Businesses and the FBI usually work together to increase the safety of the public. In this case, there is disagreement about how to keep the public the most safe.

The FBI does not understand that no government will ever be able to force all encrypted software to do key escrow with them. That misunderstanding is costing a heap of tax payer dollars and risking public safety.




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