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Since humans banded together to form governments thousands of years ago, every government in existence has been able to investigate effectively on behalf of its citizens, mainly for crime prevention and national security. Unbreakable encryption changes all of that. In that respect, this bill could be considered a dangerous experiment. Not only are no prospective trials planned, but no thought at all has been given to the unknown risks involved in changing the ancient tools of government so radically.



Actually the truth is almost exactly the opposite.

Every government in history has not had the ability to monitor and record the majority of conversations people have; the cost would have been too great. The USA with the NSA is the first to approach that ability.




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