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Similar is the argument that anyone who wants privacy/freedom is either a criminal, terrorist, or hacker (cracker)... but "think of the children" evokes such an emotive response among most of the population that it's difficult to counter.

I'm just glad we're not at the level of "open-source image processing software and hardware enables banknote counterfeiting" yet...




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