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> So as long as the government makes a pinky promise to never use their power elsewhere it's okay?

I never made any claims about what is or it is not OK.

The only claim that I am making is that this whole "XKCD wrench meme" is dumb, and that encryption actually works really well for the vast majority of people in the vast majority of usecases.

That's all. Encryption works, and you are not going to be tortured, or locked up forever, because you refused the order of a low paid border guard.

Such situations are extremely rare, and it is annoying that people keep bringing them up when they basically don't happen to anyone.



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