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by 7786655 2080 days ago
There is no situation in which the spread of "content" should be a crime. Any encryption that allows LE to track content is broken.
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Good points.

Remembering back to the PRISM disclosures, metadata alone is enough to build a surveillance apparatus. So I guess even without decryption of all objects, confirmation of the existence of known objects could still be enough to conduct mass surveillance or enable other kinds of abuse.