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What do you think about breaking encryption to catch criminals? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by the_tech_beast@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I find this question tough. Catching criminals is great but what about breaking encryption?

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[–] Elbullazul@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago

If you know someone's doing some sketchy stuff, you can probably incriminate them without having to seize the device/data and bruteforce the encryption