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by kordless 4280 days ago
> Mr. Comey said, “What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly to allow people to hold themselves beyond the law.”

This is a huge blanket blaming statement. Our intent can be protecting someone's privacy without ever addressing their intent to do harm to another. And, given the propensity of people who don't wish harm on others, I'm totally OK in supporting and pushing for these types of protections in consumer goods.

If anyone has tried to go beyond the law here, it's the NSA.