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Originally Posted by HarryT
...I didn't agree with was the idea of using encryption as a method of preventing the government from seeing your data in circumstances where they have a legitimate right to do so (eg, if cases where someone has been accused of downloading child pornography, let's say).
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What about 1950's Britain when the police might demand to see someone's private correspondence/diaries/whatever if they suspected two men of having sexual relations?
I don't think we have to go back very far for situations where decent people had to protect themselves from the authorities - and there's nothing to say the same thing couldn't happen again.