Stardate 20010927.2021 (On Screen): It returns from the underworld! Nothing can stop it! Sounds like something from a bad horror film advertisement, but what I'm really talking about is that key escrow is back in the news; the Senate is considering requiring it. It was a stupid idea last time and it is still a stupid idea. Strong crypto is a fact of life. It simply isn't all that hard to write strong crypto from scratch, and in any case strong crypto programs already exist in the world and cannot possible be recalled. Anyone who wants to protect their communication and doesn't care about the law will be able to do so, so all that mandated backdoors will do is to weaken the crypto used by legitimate users.
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