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Technological solutions depend on the government having some kind of limit to their tyranny. Brazil at least has proved to have exactly zero limits. Same judge involved in this Telegram case recently ordered a politician to reveal the password to his phone -- ordered him to literally provide evidence against himself -- and came just short of holding him in contempt of court when the password failed to decrypt the phone. I assume the cryptanalysis by intimidation worked.


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