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> Who is asking for the ability to decrypt? These people are making half or less what they could make in the private sector. While I agree with your general po
by the_watcher 8y ago
> Who is asking for the ability to decrypt? These people are making half or less what they could make in the private sector.
While I agree with your general point about not ascribing malign intent (at the very least, the misunderstanding about the security implications of weakening decryption seems primarily a case of Hanlon's Razor to me), but the "making half or less what they could make isn't convincing to me. There are those who'd happily sacrifice raw dollars for the power of being able to decrypt
- Vivtek 8y agoAnd of course there's always a certain proportion of them who manage to find ways to convert the ability to decrypt back into raw dollars. There's always abuse. And since their activities are secret, well...