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rbranson
on Sept 28, 2010
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FBI drives for encryption backdoors
As cliche as it is, the old saying "If X is illegal, only law-breakers will use X" applies here.
memetichazard
on Sept 28, 2010
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That's a tautology. And the set of law-breakers is neither a subset nor a superset of the set of immoral/unethical/bad/evil people.
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That may be, but I think most would agree that law-abiders should not be, ipso facto, barred from activity that is not necessarily immoral/unethical/bad/evil.
rbranson
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I totally agree, and there's no implication the law-breakers have any specific morality.
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