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by zodPod 1806 days ago
More of governments who have no idea how technology works trying to solve technology problems.
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Believe me they got a pretty good idea, they know knowledge is power and they want to limit the access to it.
I see government in different levels in this discussion though. FBI/NSA/etc are very technically capable when they need to be. Congress however, are very not technically capable. For example take comments asking to change the orbits of earth/moon to help climate change, the internet is a bunch of tubes, and other unintelligent sounding comments does not lend to a sign of technical understanding. The scary thing is that these are the morons saying what is/isn't legal, and the tech savvy arms are using that to their complete advantage to get away with everything.