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by coldpie 2524 days ago
> Breaking encryption for the government is so furiously stupid it blows my mind every time it is suggested.

Yeah. There's no distinction whatsoever between encryption with backdoors and no encryption at all. Imagine our current web with no encryption. Your logins are all effectively plaintext; your online shopping is effectively plaintext; your emails are all effectively plaintext. "Furiously stupid" is a good way to describe this whole proposition.