• DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca
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    The fact that governments are so hellbent on having backdoors to encrypted communications should be telling…

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      Its because they would rather be reactive rather than active. They would rather the ones be on an individual improve themselves with little to no outside assistance, then be punished if they dont. Not as a lesson to that individual, but to others.

      Shockingly, it doesn’t really work very well.

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        Considering I remember the news hitting that the anti-terrorism task force knew about the Manchester attack at the Ariana Grande concert in advance and did nothing about it, that tracks.