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This is applicable regardless of who's in charge of the national security apparatus. Not that encryption does much good against the state anyway; they'll just

• dragonwriter 10y ago
  > Not that encryption does much good against the state anyway; they'll just throw you in jail until you give them what they want: It's clearly not effective against active, targetted collection by the State, for the reason you mention, but, presuming the encryption itself is secure, it's useful against passive, dragnet surveillance by the State.