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This is about mass surveillance, not about court orders for wiretapping a person who is being investigated for a crime.

Whether for one person or for everybody, eavesdropping requires encryption to be breakable. We must accept that serious discussion on this issue is not yet closed, and we must accept that one possible outcome is that encryption be banned.

Treating a recent advancement in computing technology as the most natural of the things is not good advocacy of an issue.

> encryption be banned

You want a law that says we can't share prime numbers?

I'm not sure you read any of my comments, apart the one you replied to.

My only point is that discussions concerning the use of encryption must be accepted, because there is nothing inherently evil or unnatural in them. Don't let's get shocked any time someone proposes something that goes against some folks' credo, and let's debate the proposal in a constructive manner.

I maintain that banning the sharing of prime numbers is outside of the powers of a legitimate government, regardless.

> eavesdropping requires encryption to be breakable

This is false.

I'm sincerely interested in an example. Thanks in advance!

https://boingboing.net/2016/12/05/uk-cops-beat-phone-encrypt...

https://www.wired.com/story/smartphone-encryption-law-enforc...

https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/encrypted-messages-dont-al...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7b4gg/anom-phone-arcaneos-f...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/fbi-afp-underworld-cr...

https://www.wired.com/2015/01/silk-road-trial-undercover-dhs...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/11/mossad_hacked...

https://lawjournal.mcgill.ca/article/law-enforcement-access-...

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