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> There is a coherent set of values that lead to saying "no encryption", but not one for "only backdoored encryption".

While I oppose building backdoors, I don't really agree with this claim. There's nothing incoherent about developing a threat model.

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I think some threat models, like one that doesn't include hackers, are not coherent relative to reality.

A threat model can include hackers while not taking every action that could prevent every conceivable attack from a hacker.

Your government isn't the only one out there. If your government can have a backdoor, so can every other government. If the US, EU, Russia, and China all have backdoors to everything, who are you keeping it secret from?

The powers that can't pay? If the US, EU, Russia, China all have nukes to everything...

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