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Sigh. We already have a mechanism to get the data off the devices.

If the servers don't have it, what do you do? You go to the end points, you issue a warrant, and there's your unencrypted data.

What if they don't wanna do that? I don't know, that's out of scope.

People refuse warrants all the time. You know what we DON'T do? Say, "fuck it" and no longer require warrants.

Again, let's look at good old mail. I can encrypt mail. I can write in ciphers.

Okay, now FedEx gets a warrant. They give me the mail. I can't read it. Uh oh. What do I do? I go to the sender and recipient, and I issue warrants. Problem solved.

That's how we do things, that's how weve always done things, and that's the only reasonable way to do things. We don't say "hey post office, open up every letter and read it. And if it sounds suspicious, tell us". We don't do that.

Okay, so everyone understands that and there's no confusion. When we go online, suddenly there's confusion. Is it confusion, or is the confusion a viel for authoritarian?



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