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"if we implement this the FBI won't be visiting us to ask for help as often"

That's probably enough incentive for most to do it once known or suggested




It would be an unbelievable scandal if it came out that the U.S. government was forcing all U.S. printer companies to do something like this.


Would it really?

Things like this are revealed all the time, half the public doesn't care and the other half already know we are living in a surveilance dystopia and are not surprised about it.


To _force_ a U.S. company to do something like this would be a behavior on the level of an autocratic nation like China. Yes, I think it would be a very huge deal. I imagine somehow the government sweetens the pot for big printer manufacturers.




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