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DAG Rosenstein’s “Responsible Encryption” Demand Is Bad

by Kurt Opsahl eff.org published 2017-10-105 min read

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein delivered a speech on Tuesday about what he calls “responsible encryption” today. It misses the mark, by far. Rosenstein starts with a fallacy, attempting to convince you that encryption is unprecedented: Our society has never had a system where evidence of...

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