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		userbinator on July 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The battle to outlaw end-to-end encryption in the ... "If you outlaw encryption, only outlaws will have encryption."

u801e on July 12, 2020 [–]

While a variation of that statement is used in defense of the Second Amendment of the US Constitution, some people have thought of how the second amendment might apply to cryptography[1]

[1] https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...

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