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IDemo

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1. I'd like someone to explain precisely what backdoor is going to function

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Sat Jan 9, 2016, 12:21 PM

Jan 2016

to enable the NSA, FBI, CIA or your local cops to eyeball encrypted communications while guaranteeing that China, Russia, North Korea and Tim from Fresno are not going to have the same opportunity.

I'll wait right here.

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Asking Silicon Valley to 'disrupt' terrorists is tech talk for 'surveillance' [View all] marmar Jan 2016 OP

I'd like someone to explain precisely what backdoor is going to function IDemo Jan 2016 #1

Just as Iraq provided the excuse for the Patriot Act, NSA snooping, TSA, etc dixiegrrrrl Jan 2016 #2

Outlawing VPN would destroy huge parts of the tech industry, and thus the economy as a whole GummyBearz Jan 2016 #4

I did not think anyone in their right mind would: dixiegrrrrl Jan 2016 #5

I was not surprised that any of that stuff happened GummyBearz Jan 2016 #6

It's really too bad no one predicted how this would go. Shandris Jan 2016 #3