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The funny thing is that extending CALEA to information services and requiring baked in facilities for government digital wiretapping would do nothing to stop a smart terrorist or criminal organization. Cryptography is a field of mathematics. It's not some physical thing like a mineral which can only be mined in the United States. The knowledge of how to build a proper cryptographic channel is freely available to anyone who can understand it.


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