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Crypto is classified as an armament for export control. I’m keeping mine under the second amendment, since the folks who wrote this bill seem to care about that one.

As an aside: does that mean US DoD will get a back door as well? As a secure provider with over 1M users that required encryption at rest and in transit I think they should be the first to give up the keys to law enforcement.

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Congress should be the first to lose the things they vote to restrict. They should lose it for at least a year before a bill is allowed to pass by simple majority.

Yeah the TL;DR: on this is “Bill Barr (or any AG) could read all of your emails without a warrant if you vote for this.”

I know they would legally require a warrant to read them, maybe, but he’d have the access without it. Not a fun thought to go back to Hoover-style DoJ practices.

> “Bill Barr (or a Democrat AG) could read all of your emails without a warrant if you vote for this.

That would fix it.

https://xkcd.com/504/

There’s one for everything.

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