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by SchizoDuckie 4194 days ago
WTF?! Since when do we backdoor hardware in The Netherlands without informing the owner?
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It's not less possible, you're just more ignorant of it than America is.
I'm sure even the Netherlands has some kind of mechanism in place to allow this if a sufficiently powerful court order is in place.
Feel free to drop the 'even' in that sentence. Just say the magic words 'child pornography' and the judge will go and install that bug himself. Tor has a very bad reputation in The Netherlands, I think just saying it's a Tor node might be enough reason for a judge to sign off on an eaves-dropping warrant.
Hold off on the conclusion-jumping = 'possibly consistent with X' is a long way from 'proof of X'.