This 2010 EFF article remains a compelling and insightful read even today.
> They can promise strong encryption. They just need to figure out how they can provide us plain text.
- FBI General Counsel Valerie Caproni, September 27, 2010
> [W]e're in favor of strong encryption, robust encryption. The country needs it, industry needs it. We just want to make sure we have a trap door and key under some judge's authority where we can get there if somebody is planning a crime.
- FBI Director Louis Freeh, May 11, 1995
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/10/eight-epic-failures-regulating-cryptography
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