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It can also be used by good (or at least inquisitive) people.

The back door isn't going to be built into super encrypted military stuff, but a lot of government traffic travels over commercial links, using commercial hardware and software.

Since this government backdoor is going to be leaked or hacked about 3.2 femtoseconds after it's introduced then every internal government memo, every cell phone/sms between a politician and their mistress or lobbyist and every conversation between lawyer and client is going to be on wikileaks.

We could finally have real democracy!



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