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		mw888 on Aug 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Doomed to repeat history? Lessons from the crypto ... And what of the backdoor present in all consumer CPUs which intelligence agencies are exclusively allowed to purchase disabled? If you are making that argument, it seems like we’re already in quite dim a spot.

throwaway0x7E6 on Aug 9, 2022 [–]

that's a different can of worms, but yes, we are. it's just going to get way worse, and there's nothing we can do about that.

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