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> Nobody needs or wants it. It has really been almost 15 years with no viable legitimate use case at all.

That's not true. It's been very useful for funding the DPRK nuclear program through ransoms.



They probably used encryption while doing the ransoms too so maybe we should ban individuals from using asymmetrical encryption.


Let's not forget the Internet please. This has enabled populists governments and terrorists spreading their propaganda everywhere. Drug selling has been made easier while reading comments in online forum feals like earth is devoid of any intelligence




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