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Aissen on April 17, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: France’s government is building its own encrypted ...

This would need patching the OS at runtime, but yes, it's also possible.

cm2187 on April 17, 2018 [–]

What I mean is that perhaps they already have.

Aissen on April 17, 2018 | [–]

It's a possibility. It just wouldn't make any business sense, it's a pure self-destruct button. And there are hundreds of reverse engineers on both platforms that could have caught it by now.

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