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by majorchord 10 days ago
In the US at least, companies can and do receive secret demands from the government to add whatever kind of backdoor they want, and you're not allowed to disclose it in any way, they even order you to preserve any warrant canaries you have implemented.

This is for example why Lavabit chose to go out of business instead of giving up their keys.

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Wasn't it found to be unconstitutional compelled speech?