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How are you protecting against the likelihood that the US Government will require you to install plaintext intercept capabilities into this (for decryption keys, etc.)? (And also that they'll gag you from revealing this, open source or not.)

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That might make an interesting commit message "Pay no attention to the NSA plaintext forwarding behind the curtain". I'm sure out of hundreds of developers no one would mind. :)

... how would they gag the release of this capability in an open source product that I download and compile on my machine?

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I hadn't realised you'd need to compile it from source. Oh, well, there goes the accessibility.

We will have a transparent build process to provide pre-compiled applications for users that simply want to download the run the application.

Compiling from source is encouraged though. We will provide a video guide for those that want to compile the project themselves.

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