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Comment by ccvannorman

I am surprised that a search for "math" only turned up one result in this thread, about car accidents vs terrorist victims.

Isn't it true that encryption legislation or policy is sort of irrelevant next to the very clear math that says encryption will always be ahead of decryption? Even in a (hopefully avoidable) dystopia where encryption is illegal, would that really stop technology companies from continuing to do what they've always done?

John Oliver has a great segment[1] where he notes that the majority of cheap, available encryption applications aren't even US-based, and so it becomes nigh-impossible for our (or any) government to stop any pedestrian from encrypting.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsjZ2r9Ygzw

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