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After huffing and puffing for years, US senators unveil law to blow the encryption house down with police backdoors

Doctor Syntax Silver badge

There's a very simple test as to how much these people would want it if they understood what it meant.

Would they be prepared to have all their online account IDs and passwords published for all to see, all their bank statements for, say the last 10 years, all their emails, all their other messaging device data, all their medical records? Ditto for family members.

It should be a required test for legislators proposing this sort of legislation to publish this up-front.

Put up or shut up.

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