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You can't download explosives. You can't type text into any computer and have it generate explosives.

Encryption is not a physical object, which makes it completely unlike explosives. Not only that, there isn't even a specific piece of software that is encryption, it is simply a series of math functions you run on data.

You can make all the rules in the world about companies having to have a master key. People have already downloaded PGP, it is too late to put that back in the bag.




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