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> Encryption like this is a drastic change in the legal landscape.

It isn't a change at all. You have been able to anonymously rent a locker at a YMCA or a self-storage unit or a cabin in the woods since forever. Evidence of a crime stored there is inaccessible to law enforcement because they don't know where it is. There is no practical difference between "don't know where it is" and "don't have the password." This is not a new thing.



> There is no practical difference between "don't know where it is" and "don't have the password."

I think you forget you're living in the real world.

There is also no practical difference between accidental and intentional murder, so by your logic we should treat those the same way too.




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