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"Hi, I'm F. Beeye. Please give us all your passwords, or you will be imprisoned until you do."

• swombat 10y ago
  ... or we'll hit you with this rubber hose until you tell us. https://xkcd.com/538/ https://xkcd.com/538/
  • Aelinsaar 10y ago
    The only effective countermeasure is for everyone to encrypt everything. Unless you wan to get half of the population to torture the other half in shifts...
• Aelinsaar 10y ago
  Sure, but then they have to do that, they can't just passively snoop everything. Beating someone with a hose until they talk has different PR implications than than secretly picking their locks and reading their mail.
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