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In the beginning I don't think so. We've seen recently with Apple and Google, that there is such thing as a non-backdoored encryption product that agencies (both US and abroad) get upset about. That doesn't preclude there from being a backdoor requirement in the future, similar to a wiretap law.



> We've seen recently with Apple and Google, that there is such thing as a non-backdoored encryption product that agencies (both US and abroad) get upset about.

Who says they're not pretending to get upset about them?


Amazon is the company that cut off WikiLeaks when a senator made a hostile speech. Google and Microsoft have both gone to court to resist government actions.




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