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> Except there is no right to engage in total privacy.

There is, in practice, an absolute right to privacy. If you combine strong encryption with plausible deniability, you can reliably secure information from law enforcement. There is nothing anyone can do to access it against your will. You can always make the plausible claim the information does not exist and/or is inaccessible to you.

So, should strong encryption be outlawed?



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