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"require that manufacturers of encrypted devices and operating systems, communications providers, and many others must have the ability to decrypt data upon req
by perl4ever 6y ago
"require that manufacturers of encrypted devices and operating systems, communications providers, and many others must have the ability to decrypt data upon request"
Would the unintended effect be maybe just to eliminate commercial encryption software and force everyone to use open source?
- abecedarius 6y agoFrom the link I posted in another comment: > The bill is so broadly worded that I think it might apply to individual contributors to open-source projects, such as, say, the Linux kernel, but I’m not sure and I don’t want to scare everybody. But the bigger picture is that this bill is part of a strategy. It's meant to make EARN IT look less unreasonable by comparison. A unified strategy needs a unified response.