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   From: NOTsomeone@microsoft.com   
      
   I think that governments have a perfect right to make end-to-end   
   encryption illegal. They can ban the apps and lock up people who use   
   them. Job done. It may not be popular with some people, but it may make   
   the vast majority a hell of a lot safer. It's a reasonable debate to have.   
      
   Governments can exempt apps that provide a back door. Job done, again,   
   but the apps won't be very secure. Still, that's arguably better than a   
   blanket ban.   
      
   Possibly, a compromise is to dumb down the apps, so they are brute force   
   crackable for people with enough hardware (the security services) but   
   not by ordinary crooks.   
      
   Obviously, governments can't change the rules of mathematics. I think   
   that particular coin has finally dropped.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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