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2025-02-22 09:52:00 UTC - HELPFUL
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A backdoor for the government will also be a backdoor for malicious entities within government plus hostile states, criminals, political opponents etc. Data is either encrypted or it is not. Here is a paper from MIT computer scientists on why this is a bad plan http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/97690/MIT-CSAIL-TR-2015-026.pdf?sequence=6
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