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		CommanderData 8 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their... Probably because it's fairly difficult to detect. I doubt the code imports backdoor.dll. The UK now has laws to gag domestic companies and force them to implement backdoors.

mousethatroared 8 days ago [–]

And Australia has a law forcing its citizens, around the world, to code in backdoors.

BLKNSLVR 8 days ago | [–]

The fact that both parties were on the same side of this argument just sickens me. Same with metadata retention.

I vote thusly.

mousethatroared 7 days ago | | [–]

Its funny how everyone's forgotten about that law

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