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By analogy, what if I have multiple pairs of tin cans, where each pair of tin cans is connected by a string, and sell those pairs of cans to people so that they can have private conversations at a distance from one another.

If I provide privately owned physical infrastructure for protecting those strings and facilitating the routing of the strings am I obligated to make that available to the government for eavesdropping?



Wellll…by default, they're available. High-speed cameras (and possibly lasers/lidar?) can read the string. Maybe shroud it?




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