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by TOMDM 1392 days ago
My thought has been even more pessimistic than that. Why even pass your own legislation when your intelligence agencies can just get Australia to extract that info for you.

You don't need to actually backdoor the targets device, just the platform they use. Who cares about jurisdiction as long as your friends are willing to hand over data in the interest of international security.

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No need to be pessimistic. This actually happens, as documented in the Prism leak.