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> It's probably more difficult to coerce a private company into hacking its users, than it is for the NSA/FBI/IRS/Whatever to hack it's own system. This is a f
by bobthecowboy 9y ago
> It's probably more difficult to coerce a private company into hacking its users, than it is for the NSA/FBI/IRS/Whatever to hack it's own system.
This is a fantasy. I'm shocked to find people parroting this argument mere years after Snowden.
- weddpros 9y agoDon't you think it's easier for the government to hack its own code than someone else's ?
- zbentley 9y agoMaybe, but where "hacking someone else's" might just be issuing a search warrant, the difference in difficulties is like the difference between swatting a mosquito and swatting a gnat.