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Are you forgetting that time that the spy agency collected call records on millions of Americans through a secret court? [1]

As the other commenter points out, this only adds an attack vector and does not do anything to eliminate any.

The same incentives exist on all sides to find exploits regardless of an additional “legal” channel to crack the encryption. Particularly because your political enemies use the same devices and you can’t get a court order to tap their phones (usually).

[1] - https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2013/...






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