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If you outlaw encryption, only outlaws will have encryption (adamsmith.org)
11 points by randomname2 on June 6, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Well one way to test for backdoors is to do fake plotting and watch for a response


As in trying to get the FBI knocking on you door? Parallel construction dictates they'll never confess how or what they truly broke.


> As in trying to get the FBI knocking on you door?

Yes, to put it bluntly. Then you can blow the whistle on them because there's no way in hell they could have known were it not for them intercepting the plot. Maybe it won't hold up in court, but it's an interesting idea.


A very interesting idea indeed. I wonder if there exists a metaphorical whistle that can be heard when they whisk you away to Guantanamo bay. I mean to say I cannot believe that they would even allow such a thing to go to court. The war on crypto has gotten my tin hat on.




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