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What violent conspiracy hasn't incorporated encryption? Can you read in plaintext every email that cross the Web? I can't even access HN over HTTP. Encryption is the default for modern communication. That's the rub: it's a mass surveillance bill masquerading as an encryption bill.


The bill isn’t about encryption despite the messaging. It’s about the design of communications systems that are “unwiretappable.”




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